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VOL. XXX. NO. 30. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1807. $1,00 PER ANNUM.
Wbcru iIciuOm dogs nro unclioinoil
postmen nro not obligee! to deliver
mail, bo ilio authorities Lave decided.
The Trenton (N. J.) Trno American
thinks tlmt after nil, the Klondike
fever will probably cliiim more victims
than the yellow variety.
In the opinion of tbo New York
Mail and Express there in often more
political wisdom aired in a village gro
cery than in a State oonventiou.
r It will lo obsorved that the minors
returning with rhhes from the Klon
dike are not half no gleeful that they
have gold an that they are homo again.
It ia CHtimatod that tho French Gov
ernment will expend altogether $21,
400,000 on tho Exposition of 1000, of
which Paris will contribute $1,000,
000. To a spectator who has been accus
tomed to witucHS baseball oncouuterH
and football scrimmages the game of
golf looks like almost an ideal form of
porfoct rest, facetiously observes the
Chicago ltccord.
Stuuitzapoltavaskayn is tho name of
the place whero tho building of the
great Chinese Eastern Kail way through
Manchoorin, and which is to connect
the Siberian Kailway with tho Chi
nes6 system, wns recently begun, if
Htanitzupoltuvasknya bo a sample of
tho length of East Siberian and Mun
choorian place miinos tho trains of the
now railway will be obliged to "go
slow" in order to give tho brakemen
time to call them out between Htatious.
A Brussels correspondent of a Paris
journal says that tho feature of tho
Brussels Exposition that . attracts by
far tho most attention is the conver
sion of a log into a clean, crisp, well-
uiusirutoil little newspaper. This ex
hibit is, inado by an enterprising firm
of paper manufacturers and the local
newspaper, "Petit ltlou." Hugo logs
ire fed into a gigantic hopper, cut into
small pieces, and after passing through
most interesting stages of paper manu
facture are fed into a small perfecting
printing press. Iu full view are edi
torial rooms, artists, engravers, storo
typers and men setting typo by ma
chines, aud almost beforo the cud of a
k log has reached tho hopper tho other
end is folded under a newsboy's arm
aud being cried through the exhibition
grounds.
This is an ago which is making in
creased demands for light and air, ob
Bcrvos the New York Observer. Mauy
of tho newest river and Houud steam
ers of this section now advertise among
their attractions diuiug sutoons on the
main deck, instead of in a stuffy lower
cabin, as of yore. The ocean steamers,
which aro necessarily more compact iu
construction, aro supplied with plen
tiful currents of air circulating around
between decks, even in heavy weather
when tho hatches requiro to bo bat
tened down. Kestaurauts huvo thoir
revolving fans, and the best of engine
rooms their aerating 'apparatus. All
' this is in tho iuterest of an improved
and thoroughly sensible sanitation.
"There is life in the air" is a true say
ing. Public health, aud often public
morality, too, is bettor when society is
aerated.
While tho Trans-Siberian ruilwuy is
iu process of construction, it is inter
esting to note that a movement is al
ready assuming shape in this country
to establish connection with this gig
antic system by means of a trunk line
built from Portland, Oregon, to Ber
ing sea. Of course there are many
diiliculties in the way, but if tho enter
prise succeeds it will enable tourists
to make a complete circuit of the globe
iu less than thirty days. The Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com
pany has sent out a mup within tho
last few days showing the character of
this proposed route. The time re
quired to make a tour of tho globe by
means of this route is showu iu the
following table, which also gives the
important stopping places along ' tho
route:
Miles. Days. H'rs
Ch.ie.ago to Portland. ... 2,374 3 8
Portland to Boring strait.. ii.SC 6 10
llt rintc Btruit to Irkutsk. 3,200 0 hi
Irkutsk to 8t. Petersburg.. 3,1171) 7 15
.St. Petersburg to Berlin . y3 I 0
Uerliu to Turls 607 .. 17
Paris to London. 2iH 8
London to Liverpool... 202 i
Liverpool to Now York. . S.Otiti 5 8
New York to C'bicugo 012 1
M,1'.W 31
20
At the present time it requires nearly
three months of constant travel to
uiuke a complete circuit of tho globe.
Much, therefore, is to be gaiued bj
tho establishment of this new route:
and, iu spite of the uppurout diflieul
ties which render the enterprise doubt
fill, it is siuiply a question of tiui
before this ovcrlund route to the ol
world becomes a definite reality.
THS COLDEN SIDE.
There's many a rest on tho road of llfo,
If wo could onlv stun to tnke It:
Ami ninny a tone from tho better land.
If ttie iii-rii loo heart would wakn It.
To tho sunny soli Hint Is full of hope,
Ami whose beautiful trust ne'er falleth,
The grass Is green anil flowers are bright.
Though tho wintry storm prcvutlctu.
1 letter tohnpn, though tho clouds hung low,
Ami to keep tho eyes still lifted,
I'or tho sweet bluu sky will soon peep
through.
When the ominous elouils nro riftod.
Thero was never a night without a day,
Nor an evening without a morning;
And tho darkest hour, the proverb goes,
Is the hour before tho dawning.
, r-
HE fact that ho was
riding a bicycle
should have kept
him to remember
ing that ho was not
living iu an age of
romance. But he
forgot it. And to
live iu the midst of
a matter-of-fact
world and forgot
that it is such is
what makes most of
the tragedies of that world.
Thero were excuses for him, of
course. Tho first, that he was young;
tho second, that ho was care-free, and
tho last and as the nursery rhyme
has it, tho best that he had come
from the early spring of New Yjrk to
that of Southern California.
He had ridden through willow paths
along tho gravel roads that a month
before had been tho bed of the Sau
Gabriel; ho had crossed tho shallow
gleaming branches of tho stream time
aud again; ho had looked from the
green swell of tho divide over as green
valley, whore wild flowers were
thick on the ground and where peach
and almond trees made pink and white
patches. Just across the valley the
mountains were half covered with
snow, but the air was warm from the
sea and the sky was bright blue. So
there wus excuse for his forgetting the
bicycle and thinking the world a place
for romance.
A place for romance, but there can
bo none without a womau. And there
was no womau.
He coasted down the incline of the
divide aud made for tho Monte road,
by tree-bordered byways aud paths.
Thero was not a flake of dust in the
splendid air. All kinds of picturesque,
Old World things ought to happen.
Iu a garden of this sort man ought
certainly not to be alone. Some nymph
should come 'dripping aud glittering
out of tho zanja; some slender figure
should push its way through the high,
green barley and the Unity branches
of the peppers aud stand beside him.
He forgot tho barbed wire fence be
tween the barley Held und the road.
The grasses und (lowering weeds and
the peppers hid it. But the zanja
rippled aud purled on, the barley
waved iu the wind from the sea, and
tho sun gleamed on au uninhabited
world.
Then a bell rang out, just ahead, by
the road side, aud the silence of the
spring high noon was filled with the
voices of children and young girls.
The woman entered the gurden. She
was neither nymph of zanja nor sprite
of the field, only a black-gowned school
girl, who stood on the school house
stops and waved a handkerchief at the
passing tourist. - The tourist was a man
aud young which was all the school
girl cared about. The girl wus pretty
and willowy which was all the mau
cared about. He raised his cap and
motioned to a clump of trees down the
highway. Of course she would under
stand. It was all a part of the roinauce
and the country, and she understood.
She left tho culling, screaming chil
dreu and her older companions and
strolled toward where he sut, on the
grass under the trees. It was out of sight
of the school house. He watched her
black, lithe figure moving through the
llccked sunshine that came in through
tho plumy branches of the poppers.
They were all alone iu the midst of
spring and the garden, birds were sing
ing from the earth, the sun was shin
ing from the sky, aud the soft wind
blew from tho sea beyond the valley.
The snowy mountaius were far away,
aud the world on the other side of
them yet further.
Her name, she said, wus Alicia.
How sweet the double e's of the vowels,
how dilt'erent the stem Nelson to which
ho hud to confess. But oven that was
pretty when she said it. How old was
she'? She was fifteen. The heroines
of the poets were thut uge. Wherelid
she live? Some vague way over thero
umoug the pink blossoms. He re
membered thut when he was a child
thoso questions had always tbeguu an
acquaintance: "What is your name?
How old aro you? Where do you live?"
All the wisdom he had accumulated iu
the years between then and now hud
vanished. He did not want it. He
forgot thut he had meant to reach tho
hotel of the valley by luncheon time.
He wus not hungry; but Alicia wus.
She put her plump brown liund into
her pocket and brought out a news
puper roll. Inside of tho paper there
wus a tortillu and boiled mcut. She ute
these while she talked to him, and
when she hud finished she started to
draw tho back of her wrist ueeuss her
mouth; but remembering the teachings
of school und the preseuoe of the for
eign young muii, she took out her
handkerchief. He had meuut to ask
for thut handkerchief, the white signal
which hud fi ltered iu the air; but he
suw thut it wV. grimy aud ink-spotted,
so ho asked nyr tho wire riug she wore
iusU ud. Ali iu put ted with it as
though it hud been very precious.
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There Is many n gem In tho path of life,
Which wo pass In Idlo pleasure.
That Is richer far than a Jewelled crowu,
Or thn miser's honrded treasure.
It may bo tho lovo of a little child,
Or a mother's prayer to heaven,
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave In the web of llfo
A bright and golden tilling,
Aud do God's will with a ready lienrt,
And hands that nro swift and willing,
Than to snap tho delieiito silver threads
Of curious liven nsundor,
And then blame heaven for the tanglod
onds,
Aud sit, and grieve, and wonder.
M. E. Crouch.
T,.
Then bIio brushed the crumbs from
her black frock and stood up.
must go now," she said, with an acceut
that kept the words ffoin being com
inonpluce.
"First tell me where you live," he
askeil.
She pointed over to the patch of
feathery pink. "In the white house
in them trees."
"What is your father's uoine?"
"Mateo Manzelo," she auswored,
wiudiug one of her heavy braids
around her hand.
"I will como to see you to-night,"
no told her.
"Yes," she murmured, with musical
indifference, as she wont leisurely up
the pathway aud never once looked
back.
The man rode on to the hotel and
returned to real lifo us ho avked if a
valise aud a trunk had come aud if
there were any letters for Nelson
Cameron. Thero was one. After ho
had had bis luncheon ha sat ou the
long piazza, from which the snow-
cupped mountains could bo seen
through the climbing roses, and read
it. But tho letter was dull, aud tho
memory of tho brown hair and eyes
that had always seemed the most bean
tiful iu the world paled beside that of
two soft black braids aud two orbs as
soft aud as black. There was a vague
promise thut the owners of tho brown
huir and eyes might be iu California,
too, ere long. Cameron was not so
pleasod'as he tried to think ho was.
He began to imagine tho meeting of
that night.
It came about. Old Mau.elo and
his fat, black-wrapped wife did not
object to him iu the least. Ho walked
for hours up and down tho moonlit
road, with Alicia's hand in his und
went from her a Lord Lovel ou a
steed of glittering steel at midnight,
The poison was in his blood. He
had eaten of tho lotus, aud he forgot
home aud the past. He gave reckless
rein to tho course of young blood,
And so a fortnight passed away.
There were no more letters. They
were being sent to Santa Barbara,
where he had told the brown-eyed
girl thut the first weeks iu March
would find him. He had not written
to her. He had meuut to. But it was
the laud of poco tiempo.
In iHirsuunce of tho romance he was
living, he one duy put on the dirty
overalls aud coat of old Mauzelo and
went with Alicia to the Sau Gabriel
railway station to wash aud pack
oranges. Alicia was dressed iu faded
dark blue, with a yellow handkerchief
around her neck and a piuk bow in
her hair. She was very pretty, aud
very open iu accepting the open devo
tiou of the American. It was still just
a lark for him. it wus rather more
for her a little -more.
A tally-ho drove up to the station
aud the driver stopped it, thut his
party of tourists might watch one of
the really picturesque scenes left to
tho United States. Some of the wash
ers looked up. Cameron aud Alicia
Mauzelo were tulkiug together and
did not. Both were gazing light love
into each other's eyes. The boss of
the gang came up to the tully-ho with
a haudful of oruuges. The finest one,
all wet and glistening with its scrub
bing, he offered to the girl ou the
front scut.
"Thank you. What a splendid
one!" she piaised. "I am so thirsty
thut it will taste good."
"May I peel it for you?" he asked,
with au iullectiou thut showed him
English at once.
He had not offered to peel them for
the others, but this was a very beauti
ful womuu, with brown hair aud a
skin that reminded him of the wouieu
ut home. While he prepared it, she
looked ut the workers. And when he
huuded it to her:
"Thauk you," she suid uguiu, "and
cuu you tell me who thut mun by the
girl iu the blue gown is? lie is evi
dently not a Mexican. "
He wondered why she should cure
to know, but he answered:
"No; he is au American. All I cuu
tell you ubout him is that his name
seems to be Nelson. It is whut the
girl culls him."
"The girl?"
"Yes. It's a picturesque Uirtutiou,
I gutherod from her father. It hus
been going on for some weeks, and the
old mau says Nelson, or whutever his
uume reully is, meuus to marry her.
But it is unsufe."
"Very, I should say," said the girl,
reflectively.
"They rurely do, these whites thut
muke love to pretty Mcxicuus," added
tho Englishman.
Tho pretty Mexicuu cast up her
dark eyes just then and took notice of
tho tully-ho. She hud known it wus
there ull along, but she hud not been
interested iu it.
"The lady ou the front wutch you,"
she murmured to her companion.
Cameron glanced up. Ho cuught
th unfaltering look of the brow n eyes,
aud the scales the rosy sculcs of ro
mance fell from his own. He
flropped tho orange that he held into 1
tho water in his tub aud started to the
tally-ho. But he took only a utep,
then went back. Tiiegirl ou the front
seat had turned to the others.
"Can't wo get out for a whilot I'm
sure we are all cramped and tired, and
I should like to watch this pretty scene
for a bit,"
The Englishman helped her down.
but she thanked him and walked away.
Her manner implied that she would
make her own investigations. She
wandered among the boxes and the
tubs and trays, hazarding a word to
the washers hero ond there. Most ol
them did not understand her. She
came up finally beside Cameron's tub
and spoke to him. The on-looker
fancied that she might be asking how
many oranges ho had cleaned that duy.
Alicia, a half dozen feet away at the
end of the tray, was unconcerned. Sc
the Anglo-Saxon conducts his tragedy.
It is evidently more attractive her
than in Santa Barbara," the fair Amer
lean said, in cool, placid tones.
Cameron stammered.
"I can't blame you. It breaks mj
heart, of course. But that can't bi
helped. I cau stand it and bettei
now than later. Only I cared for you
a great deal a great, great deal."
She stopped.
"Don't you now?" asked Cameron
baldly.
"Yes. I supposo I always shall,
too. But, of course, I shall never
see you again."
He started to protest, a littlo out
roared in feelings at her severity.
"Pleaso don't make a Bceue," she
said, anxiously. "It won't do any
good. You ought to know mo wel)
enough to know that.
Cameron reflected that Alicia would
have screamed, aud cried, aud stabbed
perhaps, but would have forgiven,
That was hor Latin blood. This girl
was Anglo-Saxon. She would novel
forgive, but neither would she evet
forget. Ho understood he was o)
her race. So he kept silence.
"Did you tell her you would marry
her?''
"Yes." Ho did not ottonipt tc
evade.
"Then you will keep the promise,
will you not?
He did not answer.
"I must leave that to yon," she
finished. "If you think you should,
you will do it. Good-by.
Tho cool possessors of hot young
blood ported after the manner of the
well-bred of their kind. Tho girl
drove away through the country ol
romance. She was in Elysiau lielcU
and her heart and soul were iu hades
but no one knew that.
The mau washed his fruit in silence
while tho littlo daughter of the lunJ
stood beside him, patiently waiting
for him to speak. When ho did, lit
said:
"We shall bo married iu a week a'
tho mission, Alicia."
"Yes," she answered, pleased.
Aud tho romance was closed.
Argonaut.
Ifoa.ed In a Steeple.
The only man iu tho United States
who Jives iu a church steeple is Heze
kiah Bradds. the sexton of the Buptis!
Church at Westport, a suburb of Kan
sas City.
Tho room is small, scarcely lurgoi
tuuu a dry goods box. In thut tiuj
room ho cooks, oaU aud sleeps. It it
just under the bells.
Through the small windows that fur
nish light iu the daytime ho cuu see e
portion of Kansas City. Above hie
head the swallows twitter as they flv
iu and out through tho lattico work.
Iu his smull room are a bed, a dresser,
a tiny stove and a table.
Ho hus been sexton of the church
for several years, aud has occupied thie
room in tho steeple since his wife left
him. Some years ago he married a
kwidow with a grown sou. The sou
proved a bono of contention, aud aftei
numerous quarrels the wife left her
husband, taking the furniture with
her.
Then tho church trustees suggested
thut Mr. Bradds move into the littlo
room beneath the bells. Church mem
bers furnished the room comfortably,
and since theu Mr. Bradds hus lived s
lonesome life.
Hen., of Touch Wanting.
One has heard of heartless women
and women without feeling, but that a
human being cau exist without any
Bense of touch seems marvelous. Yet
that is claimed for Mrs. Evurtiua
Turdo, a young widow iu the West In
dies. Physicians who have kuowu her
case pronounce it a physiological
freak. She is said to be wholly with
out feeling, has swallowed poison,
been shot, bitten by rattlesnakes, re
ceived a puncture iu her heart from a
doctor's lance aud hud her neck dis
located, all without experiencing unj
paiu. Besides theso experiments, she
cau without injury drink benzine aud
light the gus ut a hollow needle which
pierces her cheek. This strunge as
sertion is bucked by the word ol
physicians of repute. As u child she
was bitten by a cobra, aud it is claimed
that her sensory nerves were paralyzed
aud her system inoculated with
poison.
1'i ter tli. Great'. Hut.
Two hundred years ago, on August
0th, Peter the Great became a ship
builder's apprentice ut Suurdum, a lit
tie village a few miles from Amsterdam
It is trim and picturesque. Iu a nur
row lano by tho waterside is tho hill
iu which the Czar lived tho life of
workmun. Nicholas II. recently in
closed it in a new building of brick
uud stone iu the Byzuutiue stylo.
A Corner on the Aliliulet.
Chemical uuiues are occasionally
curious aud long, as everybody kuowt
to his cost. Here is another to if
added to the list: Dipuruossiuoctop-
I henoudipheiiilpiperu.iuu. It has been
given ny an itunuu chemist to a new
compound which he hus discovered.
TIIE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
(II, Downfall Not Qualified to Judge
Modern Chivalry Wanted: A Name
Trouble Averted Not a Fair Kxclinns;,
Might Have llcen Worse, Ktc, Etc.
llo used to bo a "ladles' man,"
Dabbling and gay;
llo more his hair in hangs and had
A winning way
He used to be a "ladles' man,"
liut things are run on another plan
To-dnyl
Now tin is just a woman's man;
Nllnnt nnd meek;
Ills wife says man aro fools, and bo's
Afraid to speak;
She's big and strong nnd runs affairs,
And sits upon him If he dure.
To speak I
Cleveland Loader,
Not Qualified to Judge.
Maude "What's the luckiest day to
bo born on?"
Claude "Don't know. Only tried
one."
Modern C:blvalrv.
Awkward Miss (with umbrella)
"Bog pardon!"
Polite Gentleman "Don't mention
it. I have another eye loft." New
York Weekly.
Might Have llcen Worse.
The Wife "Did the editor say your
poem had no merit?"
The Poet "Oh, no. He merely
said it wasn't tho kind they paid for."
Town Topics.
Trouble Averted.
"Itis a good thing the Siamese twins
are dead."
"Why?"
"Suppose one of them wanted to
rido a wheel aud the other oue didn't."
Wanted: A Name
Her Doctor "Sick, eh?"
Herself "Yes."
Her Doctor "What's the matter?"
Herself "Oh, I don't know. What
is fashionable now?" Tho Yellow
Book.
Where Man Is Appreciated.
"There's no excuse for a man whoso
wife does not appreciate him," said
Mr. Meoktou. "It'o his own fault."
"How is ho going to help himself?"
"By purchasing a tuudem bicycle."
Washington Star.
Love I, llllud.
Willy "Sny, Auntie, what did
Uncle Bob marry you for?"
Aunt "Why, for lovo, of course!"
Willy (meditatively) "H'ui! Love
will mako a man do almost anything,
won't it, Auntie?" Toronto News.
Womuu', Inhumanity to Mun.
New Woman "Simply because a
woman marries a man is no reason
why she should tako his name."
Old Bachelor "That's so. Tho
poor fellow ought to bo allowed to
keep something he could cull his own."
Judge.
Agreed.
"I tell you, there's nothing like a
good college truining to fit a young
man for life."
"That's right. It hardens his mus
cles, gives him great powers of endur
auce uud makes a mau of him." Phil
adelphia North American.
Ilreuklng It Gently.
"Do you know, I'm quite worried
about myself. I really believe I'm
losing my nerve."
"How do you notice it?"
"I'm getting so I hate to auk any
one for a loan. As soon as I suw you
I begun to tremble." Lifo.
An Opening Fur lllni.
Fresh Youth "You told me thore'd
be au opening for mo iu the full, and
now you sny you don't care to employ
me."
Broker "Thero is au opening for
you. Eight over there tho door.
Good-day." Harper's Buzar.
Not a Fulr Kaehaugt.
Bobbie "Ethel, mamma has just
promised me something nice aud warm.
Give mo half your cuudy uud you cuu
have it."
Ethel "Hero's tho cuudy. Now
what is it?"
Bobbio (munching) "A spunking."
Corroborated.
"I rode tweuty-fivo miles ou my bi
cycle last night," observed Brooks,
"and cutue home perfectly fresh."
"I huve no doubt of it," said ltiv
ers. "I heard your wife telling my
wife this morning thut you seemed to
be raw ull over." Chicago Tribune.
Nut Much of a MyMtery.
KildutV "You say that tho cashier
is mysteriously missing?"
Burlow "Yes."
"Aud that 575,000 of tho bunk's
funds are ulso gone?"
"Yes."
"Then where is tho mystery ubout
it?"
A Holeinu Warning.
"Whut immense ears tho uow neigh
bor's boy has."
"Yes, mummu. Ho told me whut
made 'em so big."
"What wus it?"
"He suid his mummu wushed 'em so
much thut they bouked full o' wuter
and swelled."
A 1'rvtty Custom.
South American lovers huve u pretty
custom. It is well kuowu thut when
tho petuls of tho great laurel muguoliu
aro touched, however lightly, the result
is a brown spot, which develops in a
few hours. The fact is lukeu advant
age of by the lover, who pulls u mag
nolia flower, uud ou one of its pure,
white petals writes u uutto or message
with u hard, slurp-pointed pencil.
Theu ho sends tho llower, tho young
lady puta it in a vuso of wuter, and iu
three or four hours the message writ
ten on the leaf becomes quite visible
aud remuius so.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
Another paving material has been
discovered in Florida at Tumpu. It is
tho pebble phosphate, und is said to
be very good and cheap.
Tho production of india rubber in
Mexico is attracting attention, and tho
samples which have been exhibited are
said to be of fine quality.
Coul tar, when usod for dyes, yields
sixteen shades of blue, the same num
ber of yellow tints, twelve of orange,
uino of violet, and numerous other
colors and shades.
The most wonderful astronomical
photograph in the world is that which
has recently boon prepared by London,
Berlin ond Parisiau astronomers. It
shows at least 0H,000,0()0 stars.
A New Hampshire quarry is turning
out a soapstone boot, drier. It is in
tended .especially for rubber boots.
The stono is to lie heated und then
dropped into tho boot, to bo left thero
till the latter is dry.
Clover sickness, a common diseaso
which often ruins clover crops, has
caused German scientists to mako ex
periments. They huvo succeeded iu
getting cultures of the bacteria that
produce tho disease. They expect
that soon farmers will be able to inocu
late their land just as a human being
may be treated.
Planters in tho Southwest havo fin
ally found a practical means of destroy
ing insects that infest cotton plants
without injury to the boll. Tho ma
chine, drawn by two horses, looks like
a cultivator. It is provided with roll
ing brushes which turn in opposite di
rections so as to brush both sides ol
tho cotton plaut, brushing oir all insects
from tho plant without injury. The
insects are caught on rolling bauds
placed on each side of tho machine,
which carries the insects betwecu two1
rollers, whero they ure crushed.
Tho attention of a French surgeon,
Professor Lnnnelougue, was Intel
drawn to blisters produced on tht
scalps of Bcverul children who hud been
playing iu tho shudow of u well whose
top was under bright sunlight. Tho
idea that his might be an X-ray elTect
suggested itself. Experiments were
theu made on a number of persons,
when several who were exposed un
protected to similar radiations were
burned, while others who wero pro
tected by strontium glass escaped. The
investigator dcclures that X-ray dis
coveries will revolutionize tho trout
uiont of sunstroke. He thinks the an
cient Greeks may huvo been wiser than
wo know in covering their heads with
brass helmets and their chests und
backs with light metal cuirasses, nnd
concludes that future protection from
sunstroke may bo sought behind stron
tium glass helmets.
Inventing Lucifer Matches.
It was during his early days a us
sistant tcichcr ut a Beading (England)
school that the lute Sir Isaac, theu
Mr., Holden, invented ' tho lueifel
mutch, through tho necessity for au
illumiuunt ou dark wintry mornings.
Ho told tho story thus: "In the morn
ing I used to get up ut 4. o'clock, in
order to pursue my studies, aud I used
ut thut time Hint aud steel, in the use
of which I found very greut inconveni
ence. Of course I knew, as other
chemists did, tho explosive material
thut wus necessary iu order to pro
duce instantaneous light, but it wus
very difficult to obtain a light on wood
by that explosive material, uud tho
ideu occurred to ino to put sulphur un
der the explosive mixture. I did that,
and showed it iu my next lecture ou
chemistry, a courso of which I wus de
livering at a largo academy. There
was a young mau in the room whose
father was a chemist iu London, aud
he immediately wrote to his father
about it, and shortly afterward lucifor
matches wero issued to the world. I
believe that was the first occasion that
wo hud the present lucifor mutch. I
was urged to go and tako out a patent
immediately, but thought it wus so
smull a mutter, and it cost mo so lit
tlo labor, that I did not think it
proper."
Woiitun'. Work at ItrusHcl l-:xlillltloii.
At tho exhibition ut Brussels thero
is a "womun's work section," iu which
a number of girls are daily to bo seen
pursuing their uvocutioiis. Tho mu
jority of them, nuturully, aro luco
mukers, producing the specialty of the
couutry. It is shocking to know that
for the monotonous hand-skilled uud
eye-trying labor of luce-iiiaking the
wage is but half a fruuc for tho long
day. Think of toiling ull day, with
tho attention aud tho eye-sight ou the
struiu, for ten cents! Artificial flower
mukiug is uuolher Brussels specially;
very few of the blossoms thut adorn
our huts are made ut home. It wus
interesting to seo the manufacture ol
snowdrop; how the blossom had to be
quite elaborately constructed, uud
theu how tho stem hud to be covered
with green paper by deftly twisting
fingers, uud how tho blossom hail tc
bo cuught iu ut tho right moment to
hung gracefully uud then to reflect
thut tho result will be sold retuil
iu America for teu or fifteen cents
dozeu!
Aiuei'lt-MU Hairpins.
It wus not until 1 NTH that the man
ufacture of hairpins began iu the
United Stutes. Previous to that time
those used iu this country wire brought
from England or France. Now tht
trudo is such u large one that it take
50,000 packuges, each containing
twenty-four pins, to supply the whole
Bale deuiund daily in New York ulolie.
Could I'liolouruiill u ISIock of llou-s.
What is to bo tho largest photo
graphic cumeru iu tho world is ut
present being made to the order of u
Dublin firm. Tho cuse of tho instru
ment measures seven feet bix inches
long by six font high and is of richly
curved ouU. The lens is of special
manufacture uud will coat ubout tfoOOO
BY THE MARSHES.
In building green the willows bend,
The rushes patient stand,
from east to west the cloud-fleots trend
At will of breezes bland;
And dark against the sunlit sky
The golden plover 11 y.
Ueyond, a mist spreads filmy cloak
O'er amber waters lone,
And pud's of distant scattered sinoko
Above the reeds nro blown;
And zigzag traced, from left to right
lnrts by a jaek-eulpe's flight.
Hero bask the shy ami weary teal
Ueslde the pool's dim edge,
Hero water-hens all noiseless steal
Among tho waving sedge.
And bitterns In tho Inmost brake,
Htaud solitary, liko a stake
Wide stretches steeped Iu sylv
iS"ieaguerO'l ny tin) sun;
Winds, southwest winds, with w
balm
flreen grass and rushes dun;
And wheeling through tho fur-off sky
The gulden plover fly.
Kmest MeUufToy, In Woman's Home
Companion.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Hard money The money you try to
borrow.
Never waste your time; waste some
body else's.
Handled without gloves Knives
und forks, generally.
She "And wero you successful
with your first case, doctor?" Ho
"Y-yo-cs. The cr widow paid tho
bill!"
"The mills of tho gods grind slow
ly," remarked the philosopher.
"Geared too low, eh?" queried tho cy
clist. Puck.
"Drink to mo only with thine eyes"?
Tho poet was a snge, I wist.
Tho things one drinks with but ouo's eyc.T
Are least expensive on tho list!
Harper's Uuzur.
"Timo works wonders," said a hoI
dier, uged thirty-seven, when he re
turned homo from India and found
his twin sister only eighteen. Cal
cutta Critic.
"Were your wife's pictures satisfac
tory?" "Good pictures ouough, but
not at all natural." "What wns the de
fect?" "Why tho fool of a photog
rapher took her while she was looking
pleusunt." Philadelphia Bulletin.
"I don't hear Jones prating any
more about his great love for little
children." "Jones has moved into a
house that has a vacant lot next door,
where the boys of tho neighborhood
play bull daily." Indianapolis Jour
nal. "Why this sign uot to touch this
particular piece of statuary with canes
or uuibrollus?" asked a visitor ut the
art exhibit. "Because," snapped a
competing artist, "you could only do
justice to it with au ax." Detroit
Free Press.
Bridget has a kitchen full of her
company. Mistress (from tho heud
of tho stairs) "Bridget!" Bridget
"Yis, mum." Mistress "It's 10
o'clock." Bridget "Thank yo, mum;
au'willyezbo so koiud as t' tell mo
whin it's 12?" -London Tit-Bits.
Why a Swelling Follows a lllow.
Tho swelling which follows from a
blow is nature's effort to protect tho
part from further injury und to keep it
ut rest while repair is going on. Whut
actually takes place at tho scut of in
jury is not even uow quite understood.
Tho injury to tho smaller blood ves
sels interferes with tho How of blood
through them aud tho white corpuscles,
with part of tho serum, tho watering
part of tho blood, escape into tho sur
rounding tissues. At tho same timo
the blood vessels iu tho neighborhood
dilute und the increased How of blood
with tho thoroughfuro obstructed in
creases tho swelling.
It is probable that the white cor
puscles of tho blood puss into the
tissues to assist iu tho repair, as bees
or ants assemble at an injury to their
storehouse, but with this dilTerouue,
thut tho substance of tho corpuscles is
probubly converted into tho tissue of
repuir. From one point of view the
human body is only ono gigantic
colony of iudividuuls, uud the swelling
thut follows injury but tho rush of
these to repuir tho breach. Phila
delphia Times.
The 1'oultry Industry.
Our enormous wheat crop, which is
extolled iu every journal iu tho coun
try, aud which excites tho uduiirutiou
of the world, is equalled by the value
of tho poultry und eggs produced iu
tho United Stutes, tho eggs uud poul
try finding homo markets. At sixty
cents u bushel tho total value of our
wheut crop is ubout 100,000,000
a year. Tho census iu 1HJS0 (seven
teen years ugo) showed tho vuluo of
poultry und eggs to be '.0(,00(,(MiO,
und yet it is doubtful if tho census
enumerators wero ublu to get the full
number or vuluo. To-day it is known
thut tho poultry industry is ut leust
one-third larger than iu IStfil, uud
thut tho vuluo of tho poultry uud eggs
produced in thiscoiiutry is fully jfllOO,
000,000, which places it on u par with
many other leuding industries.
Farm aud Fireside.
White Auhuuls Cannot Smell.
Very few animals but pigs uud sheep
uro white ull over, uud it hus beeu
found that pure white crcuturcs uro
entire deficient iu tho sense of smell.
Iu Africa white rhinoceroses poison
themselves sometimes by fitting u
euphorbia, which no ot'-iv uuiiiiul will
touch, uud Italian wool growers do
not like pure white sheep, b cause
they ure ulwuys eutii.g gruss uud herbs
which don't agree with them.
I ml Inn LuiiKUugt s.
There are uceording to uti eminent
urchu ologist, no less than from 1'JO Lj
1.10 absolutely distinct lunguuges iu
North uud South America. As tho
growth of luuguago is very slow, ho
thinks tho fact of tho existence of so
greut u u' iety of iqieech oil the west
ern continents proves that the native
red men huve inhabited them for iiuiiy
thou.-iuuds of years.
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