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VOL. XXXI. NO. 23. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1898. 81.00 PER ANNUM.
R
st
Perhaps the most convincing proof
of the truth of the saying that "trade
follows the flag" is found in the qnick
recognition given by American busi
ness men to tho possibilities lying
practically dormant in the territories
recently opened to American enter
prise by American sailors and soldiers,
says Bradstreet's. However disinter
ested our motives for interference in
Spain's dependencies may have beon,
thero is no escaping from the fact that
with tho triumph of American arms
Las come a heulthy inclination on tho
part of American business interests to
explore and exploit the resources of
the sections of country now uuder
American rule.
The iron oro productions of Spuiu
in 1897, amounted to 7,408,000 tons,
as compared with 0,702,000 tons in
1890. Of this product tho Biscayan
miueB contributed 5, 170,000 tons; Sau
tander mined 800,000 tons; Muroin,
"470,000 tons; Seville, 330,000 tons,
and Almeriu 300,000 tons. Neat ly all
of this ore is exported, England taking
6,000,000 tons; Gormnuy took 1,000,
000 tons; Franco, 500,000; Bolgiuui,
200,000 tons, and 00,000 tons went to
the United States, Spain herself con
verts but a very small purtof this ore;
the Spanish production iu 1897 only
amountod to 297,000 tons of ingots,
63,000 tons of Siemens steel and 131,
000 tons of structural iron.
A British Board of Trade publica
tion on tho world's coal supply shows
that the Unitod States is second only
to England in the amount of produc
tion, aud that in tho oost of produc
tion the Uuited Stntos ranks under
England aud Germany. Trado statis
tics have just been published which
for this couutry and England cover
1897, a year later than tho British of
ficial figures which cover tho world.
In 1897 the British production was
202,128,315 tons; that of the United
States was 193,250,000 not tons. The
Board of Trade figures arc as follows:
United Kingdom, 195,301,000 tons;
avorago from 1894 to 1890, 191.000,
000 tons; Unitod States' average 1894
to 1890, 105,000,000 tons; Germany,
1890, 85,690,000 tons; France, 28,
750,000 tons; Bolgium, 21,252,000
tons. .
A correspondent of an English pa
per calls attention to the "probably
Scotch" descent of President McKin
ley and confesses to a pardonablo
pride in tho fact, as the writer is a
''Lowland Scotchman." He is only
partly right aud will have to share his
pride with his neighbor of the North
of Ireland, our worthy Presideut be
ing sot down in tho record as o'
"Scotch-Irish" ancestry. In this re
gard he is lik9 four other Presidents
of the United States Chester A. Ar
thur, James Buchanan, James K.
Polk aud Audrow Jackson. Curiously
enough, the list inoludos President
Polk, who conducted one of our for
eign wars, and another, Jackson, who
distinguished himself iu tho only
other foreign war. But the Scotch
man need not lack for satisfaction.
Three of onr Presidents were of
Sootch descent, Hayes, Grant and
Monroe, and Grant's renown, with a
joint share in Jackson's, should suf
fice. The remainder of our twenty
five Presidents were of English do
soent, with the exception of Jefferson,
of Welsh ancestry, and Van Buren, of
Dntch. So it will be seen that, uavo
one, all traced their family trees back
to roots in the soil of the United
Kingdom.
The Atlanta Constitution says: Ono
of the greatest afflictions under which
the Southern States now rest is the
impression abroad that this entire sec
tion is given up to fever aud malaria.
So universal is this opinion in tho out
side world that it is rogArded as a very
brave act for one to traverse tho sus
pected country without advisement
in other words, whenever a European
or a citizen of one of the Northern
States or of Canada meditates a trip
into ono of the Southern States one of
his first inquiries is as to the propel
season iu which to visit these Statot
and as to the sanitary requirements
with which he should surround him
self. False as this fear is, unjust, un
founded, and without proper basis to
rest upon, it still exists, and ono oi
the most difficult tasks which the
Southern publicist has to perform is
to convince these pooplo that tho
Southern States, as a whole, arc as
healthy as any similar territory in any
part of tho world, and that the plague
spots within their limits are no more
numerous and no more fatal than aro
to be found in similar expanses of ter
ritory elsewhero, whether North or
South. Only iu a few spots iu the
South is it possible for yellow f over to
originate. The great bulk of the couu
try is absolutely as free from it as a.o
the New England States.
THUS THE INDIANS LIVED.
Incidents of a Trader's Visit to a Camp on the
Plains.
FALL was a month
away, aud the
days passed slow
ly and with un
varied monotony
at Kipp, Montana,
onr trading post
on the upper Mis
souri. Tho In
dians were far out
mm
on tho prairie, camping with the buf
falo aud securing the thin, light sum
mer skins with which to inako new
lodges, moccasins, aud various other
things. It was hot in the river valley;
not a breath of wind stirred the foli
age of the cotton-woods, and we
wandored from one place to another
trying to find the coolest nook. There
was nothing to do to pass the time ex
copt sleep and eat and count the days
that must pass ere the cold weather
would drive the Indians back to the
river aud trade would begin again. I
was not a little pleased, then, wheu
one day a runner from the Blood In
diau camp brought word that the chief
desired a wagonload of trade goods
sont out to them, aud the head trader
ordered mo to go, selecting as my as
sistant a French half-breed employe
named Archie, a trusty man aud a
cheerful companion. Long before
noon we loaded a heavy wagon with
sugar, coffee, tobaoco aud cartridges,
hitched on four good horses and be
gau to pull up tho long, stoep hill
which wound up through tho piues to
tho prairies, several miles from the
river. At last we reached the lovel of
the rolling table laud, and how pleas
nut it was to fuel the cool prairie
breeze iu our facos and to gaze upon
tho endless expanse of plains and
inountaius about us! Southward tho
snowy mountains loomed up as dis
tiuct and clear cut as if thoy were but
a mile or two away, yet they were
nearly fifty. Off to the east and south
east numberless flat-topped and pine
clad buttes rose from the plain as far
as wo could see, and everywhere was
the bright sunlit prairies, the clear
blue sky, and the cooling wind.
Our horses were fresh and wo made
good time under Archie's skilful driv
ing, reaching big Crookod Creek,
twenty miles or more from tho river,
long before dark. While Archie carod
for tho horses I wont up the creek a
little way with my ritlo aud socured a
fat antelope from a bunch which was
coming in to the water. Wo soon built
a fire of buffalo chips and had a hearty
meal of liver, hard bread and tea.
The country we were in woe infested
by war parties of hostile Indians,
especially the Sioux, aud we knew we
were running a good chance of losing
our scalps by camping there. So as
soon as supper was over we put out
the fire, and carrying our bedding
some distance away, lay down for the
night, not omitting to coil a hair rope
around the robos to ward off any stray
rattlesnakes which might come along.
Some time in the night a small herd of
buffalo came along and got quite close
to us before they had our wind; then
they ran off, snorting and pounding
the prairie like thunder with their
heavy hoofs; but our horses were used
to them and did not stampede, as we
feared they might.
About 10 o'clock tho next day we
came in sight of thoBload earap, whioh
was strung up and down a little stream
whose head is in the Snowy Mountains.
Almost every family had a new lodge,
and very white and. neat they looked
in the clear sunlight. Game of all
kinds was evidently very plenty in tho
vioiniry, for about every lodge hung
long Hues of drying moat, and the
ground was covered with the skius of
buffalo, elk, antelope and deer, pegged
cut to dry. We drove at onco to the
chief's lodge, and he greeted us very
kindly, ordered his wives he had five
to unload our wagon aud stow the
goods inside tho lodge, and made us
sit with him and smoke and eat and
exohange the news. But we were not
to rest very long; the camp was short
of cartridges and tobacco, and soon
we bad tho lodge surrounded with
men anxious to trado. Antelope and
deer skins wore quoted at forty ceuts
a pound that season, or about a dollar
each, aud elk hides were worth as
muoh again. For tho former we paid
eight cartridges, and for the latter
twelve, at a oost of tixtoeu or twenty
four cents; and tobacco, tea, sugar aud
other things we disposed of at a like
ratio. But the Indians were well sat
isfied, and returned to their lodges
with their iittle purchases rejoicing.
Our host, Chief Pe-uuk-wi-im, was
one of the jolliest old Indians I ever
knew. He was very portly, aud had
long siuco given np the chase, but he
lould well afford to do so, for he
had several hundred head of horses,
which he had no difficulty in lending
to poor young men for half the spoils
of the chase, and ono or two young
orphau boys lived with him aud carod
for them for their board aud clothes.
His five wives toilod unceasingly to
tan and dry the robes and hides which
were constantly being brought in.
Yet they had a comparatively easy
time, for they did not work very long
hours, they rested wheu they pleased,
and they wore oontontod, for they
knew that the lot of womon was to
toil and to serve their lord and mas
ter. While there was no open jealousy
among them, they vied with one an
other in their attentions to the chief,
and ho in turn seemed to regard them
all with oqnal favor. Tho bead, or
oldest, wifo was in a measure the
overBoer of tho others aud directed
their work, and her place in the lodge
was always by the side of her husbund
at his right hand. Yet this appar
ently gave her no advantage over
them in any respect.
As the sun went down all work
ceased. The hunters returned from
the chase, feasts were called out here
and there, aud the camp was filled
with song and laughter. Among tho
younger poople dances and games of
chance were iu order, while the older
ones smoked and told stories of war,
the chase, or recounted the wonderful
doings of the gods. Every evening
the head men of the tribe, the noted
warriors, medicine men and sages
gathered in Pe-nuk-wi-im's lodge,and
I was always interested in listening to
their tales, and so was Archie, so long
as the story was of the chaso or war.
But when they talked of religion, of
the power and greatness of their gods,
Archie would become impatient, for,
like all the halfbreeds of French de
scent, he was a strict Catholic, and
had no faith in their heathen ways.
It was amusing to hear him argue
with them as to the relative strength
of their gods and his, and I cannot say
that he ever got the better of the ar
gument. One evening Archie, with
great pains and detail told about Dan
iel in the lion's den, and when he had
finished a tall, brawny warrior re
marked that the beasts had probably
just eaten a hearty meal aud were too
lazy to move.
"I myself," he said, "single handed
aud with only a knife, once crawled
into a bear's den I found. I prayed
to tho Sun to aid me, and wheu I saw
the bears I stabbed with all my might.
There were three in tho den, and I
killed them all. That's more than
your man did, for by your own account
it would seem he was afraid to fight."
Very early one morning it was re
ported that a largo herd of buffalo
were feoding on a high table land
three or four miles east of the camp.
The camp cvier was soon abroad,
shouting out the news, and the war
riors, arousod from their sleep, came
tumbling out of the lodges iu haste
for their horses. One of the strictest
rules for the government of the people
was that regarding tho buffalo hunt
ing. Thinking life was dependent on
a supply of these animals, whioh wore
their food, clothing and shelter, a
hunter might go by himself to hunt
deer, elk or other small game, but
wheu buffalo was discovered no one
was allowed to hunt them alone, un
der penalty of confiscation and de
struction of his property, and even
death. Sharp lookouts were always
watching for a herd, and when one
was seen the camp crier spread the
news. The hunters assembled at the
chief's lodge, aud when all were ready
they started out together, under the
leadership of some chief, and thus
had an equal chance.
It was not half an hour after the
alarm had been given before the war
riors, mounted on their fleet ponies,
were assembled about us. Saddles
had been discarded, aud even cloth
ing, many of the men wearing only
the breecholout and moccasins. Most
of them were armed with rifles, but
some carriod bows and arrows, which
at close quarters were almost as rapid
and effective as guns. It was a grand
sight to Bee these lithe and sinewy
men move off at the signal of they'
leader. The impatient horses strained
at their bits and curvetted from side
to side, and their riders, erect and
graceful, eat them as if horses and
riders were one. No sooner were the
men gone than the women begau to
string out after them, mounted on
their gentler pouies, and boys went
with them driving strings of pack ani
mal which were to bring back the
meat and hides. By this time the
chief's wives had prcp'ared onr morn
iug meal, and after eating I borrowed
a horse from the old chief and rode
out toward tho scene of the hunt. I
was much too late to join in the chase.
By the time I reached the plateau on
whioh the buffalo had been discovered,
the herd had been run and the sur
vivors were gone, but the sagebush
plain was thickly dotted with the hjugo
forms of the slain to the number of
several hundred, and now tho hunters,
tho women and the boys were busy
skinning them and outting up the
meat. Here and there a couple of
men were quarreling over the owner
ship of a fat cow, whioh both claimed
to have shot. But these disputes were
seldom serious, and generally ended
in a division of the meat. In the old
days, when tho bow and arrow was
the only weapon used these quarrels
seldom occurred, for each Indian had
a mark on bis shafts.
Many of the hunters, havlngpointed
out to their women the animals they
had killed, now began to ride slowly
toward home. They had done their
share of the work. They were very
happy over their success, aud nearly
every one who passed called out that
he would send a tongue Over to tho
chief's lodgo for me. Not a little in
terested in watobing the women out
up the buffalo, although I had soen
thorn at such work many times, I rode
out along the line of chase, whioh ex
tended soveral miles. The women
were in very good humor, too, that
morning, aud laughed and joked with
each other whilo they worked, Tuore
is nothing bo conducive to contont
ment as a goodly store of provisions
As I rode among thorn they turned
their witticisms on me, and I cannot
say that I got tho better of these en
counters. While I was joking with them wo
wero startled by hearing heavy firing
beyond, and looking toward the end
of tho line of the chase, we saw a large
party of yelling horsemen swooping
down on the scattered groups of wo
men and men. They were firing their
guns rapidly, and already had killed
several of our people. By this time
very few of onr men remained on the
grounds, most ol them having re
turned to camp; but what few wero
left imitautly monnted their horses
and rode swiftly toward the enemy,
and I went with them. When the
enemy had first been discovered, as
they rode up over the edge of the
plateau, the women had instinctively
rashed to tho men for protection, but
some had already been cut off aud were
killed and scalped. The survivors
now formed fivo different groups, each
one protected by from three to seven
or eight men, who were firing rapidly
at the circling enemy. And as for the
enemy, they seemed to be everywhere
at once, wheeling, circling on their
fleet horses, never bunching, and pre
senting a difficult mark. They were
Sioux, and decked out in the full war
costume peculiar to them. There wero
a dozen of us hastening to the defence
of those beyond, and as we drew near
the Sioux circled out and made for the
women we had left behind, who were
shrieking and chattering with fear.
We turned then and headed them off,
killing two of their number, and they
shot a man who was riding by my
side. The poor fellow threw up his
hands and tumbled off his horse stone
dead. All this time we were being
reinforced by men from the different
groups, and soon there were twenty
three of us, charging and checking
every move of the Sioux, who num
bered forty-one, including the two we
had killed. They were good fighters,
but our people were better, for they
were fighting with desperation for
their women and children. As they
drew away from our pursuit we deter
mined to let them go, and turned back
toward the women, thinking the fight
was over. In the meantime the Sioux
had stopped and evidently held a
council, for suddenly they started to
ward us again, spreading out like a
fan, so as to attack the whole length
of our line. We scattered, too, aud
with three others I hastened toward
the women at the point from which I
had at first started. And now all along
began a general fusillade. Our men
had all dismounted here aud there
among the women, and their Bliots be
gan to tell, for every miuute or two a
Sioux, and sometimes both horse aud
rider, would fall among the sage bush.
Their shooting even from the backs of
their flying horses was not without
effect, for they killed two more women
and wounded a man. But now rein
forcements begau to come in sight, for
some of our hunters, who were riding
leisurely home, had heard the shoot
ing and returned to see what was up.
As soon as the enemy saw them com
ing they ceased firing at us and started
off to the south as fast as they could
go, pursued by some of the men whe
had been protecting the women, and
all of the newcomers, fifty-four all told.
We now had time to count up oui
losses, which we found to bo two men,
seven women and one boy killed, and
three men, eight women and four boys
and girls wounded. Of the enemy
we had killed seven and seriously
wounded one, who was quickly des
patched. Three of our party whe
were killed lost their scalps, and we,
of course, took eight. It did not take
me long to hasten back to camp and
tell what had befallen us, and then
what excitement there was I Men ex
citedly rushed for their arms and
horses and hastened away. Women
cried and wailed and surrounded me,
begging to know who had been killed.
I could not, of course, give tho names
of the women, but wheu I told who
the men were their relatives in the
crowd hastened away, sobbing out
their names, to prepare for their bur
ial. In an hour or two the dead and
wounded were brought in, aud the
sound of mourning was heard on
every hand,, and mingled with it one
could hear the relatives of those who
had killed an enemy calling out their
names and praising their courage and
success. About suudown the pursu
ing party returned, having had a run
ning fight with the Sioux for miles.
They had killed two more of them,
but had finally given np the chase, as
the enemy had better horses.
Archie and I put in a sleepless
night, for the mourning was kept up
without intermission. Even in our
lodge there was sorrow and gloom, for
one of the chief's wives bad lost a
brother. We both were depressed by
tho calamity whioh had befallen the
people. Early in the morning the
dead, carefully wrapped and bound in
blankets and robes, were carried on
travois to a grove of cottonwoods up
the stream, aud then placed on plat
forms lashed to the branches, for their
eternal sleep. Beneath the aerial
graves of the men horses wero killed
that they might not go afoot to tho
sandhills, aud by their Bides or
wrapped up with them were their
weapons and war clothes. Mission
aries aud others have made such an
outcry against this practice that the
Government long ago forbade it.
Tho next afternoon the scalp dance
took place. Those who had lost rela
tives painted their faces black, the
women outting off their hair and scari
fying their arms and aukleB. They
carriod the scalps of tho enemy sus
pended from Bticks, and went about
through the camp, stopping here and
there to danco aud sing the plaintive
scalp song. Few white persons have
any tnsto for Indian music, yet Borne
of our greatest musicians have pro
nouueed it purely classical in con
struction. One oould clearly per
oeivo in this scalp song the dominant
theme of sorrow for the dead kindred,
and a minor ono of joy that they had
been avenged. Afterward these
calps wero handed over to the war
riors, and they iu turn dauced with
them; but their song was one of exul
tant victory. New York Sun.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
According to Science New Form of ad
Old Saying Settling; Up Making Sore
The City In Hot WeatherA Painless
Process A Drawback Caution, Etc.
There Is a man In our town
(His name my memory slips)
Who kissed ten thousand microbes
Off his sweetheart's ruby lips.
And when he found what he had done,
With all his might and malr,
He rushed up there another night
And kissed them on aguia.
Up-to-Date.
Settling Up.
notel Clerk "This is a bad fifty
cent piece, sir."
Commercial "All right; lhad abad
night."
New Form of an Old Saying.
He "Fave your heard the latest?"
She-"What is it?"
He "Never look an auto-car in tho
motor." Judy. .
Making Snre.
Examiner "What part of speech is
the word 'am?' "
Smart Youth "What, the 'am
what you eat, sir, or the 'am' what
you is?" Fun.
A Drawback.
Hicks "She has great command of
language, hasn't she?"
Wicks "Yes; I am inclined to think
that that's why she never got married."
Somerville Journal.
A Painless Process.
"They can take photographs in the
dark now."
"That's good; those hateful photo
graphers won't be always telling us to
look pleasant. " Detroit Free Press.
Somewhat Surprised, Hlmselt.
Mamma "I'm surprised at you,
Johnny!"
Johnny (thoughtfully) "I wonder
if you'll ever get used to me, mamma?
You're always surprised at me."
Puck.
The City In Hot Weather.
Citizen "I wish to see the Health
Offioer." .
Clerk "He is not in."
Citizen "Where is he?"
Clerk "Gone out of the city for his
health." New York Weekly.
A Documental Insult.
"Cousin Julia has given up her trip
abroad."
"What for?"
"She found that her passport de
scribed her as having a large mouth."
Chicago Becord.
The Passing of Baseball.
Foreign Visitor "I see it stated
that pnblio interest in baseball is de
clining." American Host (sadly) "I fear it
is. I haven't seen an umpire mobbed
this season." New York Weekly.
The State of Literature.
- "Don't you think," said the young
man, "that literature is in a state of
decline?"
"Unquestionably," repliod the
other; "it's in a chronio state of de
clinewith thanks." Washington
Star.
Impressions On Air.
Small Boy "Say, pa, teacher said
to-day, 'Study hard, boys; time flies.' "
Father "Very true, my son."
Small Boy "Well, and a little
while after he said, 'Time leaves foot
prints.' Now, pa, how can time leavo
footprints if it flies?"
How They ICetrnated.
"I see," said the elderly boarder,
"that the paper says the foe retreated
doggodly. I wonder what sort of re
treat that was?"
"Presumably," said the Cheer'ul
Idiot, "they took to their barks."
Indianapolis Journal.
Preferred Ills Illusions.
Bonter "Do you know Plantagenet
Jenks, the poet?"
Thorpe "No, but I think great
things of him."
Bonter "Let me introduce you."
Tharpe "Thanks, no; I would
rather think great things of him." -Brooklyn
Life.
Obeying Father's Advice.
Wise Father "No, my son, never
put off till to-morrow what can be
done to-day. Bemember that, and
the path which loads to success will
lie open boforU you."
Little Freddie "All right. Gimme
a quarter to go to the ball game this
afternoon. It might rain to-morrow."
Chicago Nows.
An Up-to-date Count.
Papa "I did the Count an injus
tice. I thought he was a chump."
Mamma "And you have changed
your opinion?"
Papa "Yes, indeed! You should
have seen him kick when I tried to
work off some worthless railroad
stocks as part of the marriage settle
ment." Puck.
Cautious.
"How will you have your eggs
cooked?" asked the waiter.
"Make any difference in the cost
of 'em?" inquired the customer,
cautiously.
"No."
"Then cook 'em with a uioo slice of
ham I" said the customer, greatly re
lieved." Pittsburg Bulletin.
Namlug the llaliy.
.- Cuinso "Well, Cawker, did you
name your baby George Dewey?"
Cawker "No."
Cumso "You told mo that was
(your intention." ,
: Cawker "Yes."
Cuinso "Then why didn't you?"
Cawker "We decided upon sec,
oud thoughts to name her Elizabeth. -I
Harper's Bazar.
SEA ELEPHANT OIL
Success of Yankee's Attempt to Revive
an Industry of the South Atlantic.
In making the experiment of reviv
ing tho industry of hunting sea ele
phant for their oil, Mr. Bichard T.
Green, of Boston, Mass., has met with
remarkable success. The bark Swal
low, Captain Cleveland, which sailed
from Boston on August 20 last, ar
rived at New Bedford a few days ago
with 1800 barrels of sea elephaut oil,
valued at about $25,000. Most of the
oil will probably be exported to France.
Little attention has been paid to sea
elephant hunting of late years, as the
animals had been almost exterminated
by New London whalemen, bnt when
the schooner arrived at New Bedford
last year with a few barrels of sea ele
phant oil Mr. Green decided to try to
revive the industry.
The cruise of the Swallow was made
to Kergnelen, better known. as Deso
lation Island, in the South Atlantic
Ocean, Exactly 113 days out from
Boston, the Swallow dropped anchor
in Sprightly Harbor, at the sonth side
of Desolation Island. The shores are
rocky and forbidding, and the atmos
pheric conditions are of the most un
pleasant character. The island is re
markable for the number of sea ele
phants fonnd there. In appearance,
they somewhat resemble the seal.
They are never fonnd in northern wa
ters. A characteristic of these animals
is their habit of beaohing themselves
in groups, 200 or more being often
fouud in what whalemen call a pod.
Immediately after dropping anchor
the crew of tho Swallow were ordered
to begin what became a daily occupa
tion. This was to land on shore in ten
ders and proceed to the pods of sea
elephant, shooting them with Win
chester rifles or lancing them. The
animals do not exhibit a very great
disposition to escape, aud are, conse
quently, easily killed in abundauoe.
They are skinned on the spot, and
blubber from one to three inches in
thickness is out into chunks about two
feet square. The blubber is then
floated in the water to soak out the
blood, after which it is taken to the
ship, where it is tried out, making a
very clear oil.
For just three months the bark lay
at anchor. During that time enough
oil was taken to fill 1800 barrels, her
hold being completely filled, fore and
aft, and many barrels being stowed on
dock.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
There are 17,000,000 comets.
Zologists say that all known species
of wild animals are gradually dimin
ishing in size.
A somewhat novel industry has re
cently been started in Sweden, and
consists of the manufacture of textiles
from peat fibre.
Taking the average depth of the
ocean to be three miles, there would
be a layer of salt 230 feet deep if the
water should evaporate.
One of the numerous virtues of per
manganate of potash is its proporty of
iustant.y killiug such mosquitoes as
oome in contact with it.
It has been demonstrated that tho
explosive power of a sphere of water
only one inch in diameter is sufficient
to burst a brass vessel having a resist
ing power of 27,000 pound3.
Imitation ivory is now being exten
sively manufactured from the fruit of
a palm-like shrill called Phytelephas
inacrocarpa, which is about the size of
an apple and possesses a hard interior
kernel. .
A plan has been perfected by a
Lyons (France) cloth-weaver, by
which the wool on a sheepskin can be
converted into velvet. Until recently,
unshorn Bheepskins have been chiefly
used for rugs and carpets. )
Small-pox, scarlet ferer, measles,
diphtheria, influenza, etc, are infec
tious diseases which are contagions;
while malarial fevers, typhoid fever,
yellow fever, cholera, pneumonia, peri
tonitis, etc, are infectious diseases
which are not ordintrily contagious.
On the Eating of Loons.
Man is a creature of prejudice! In
Scotland he will not eat eels; iu Con
necticut he will not eat sturgeon, the
royal fish of England, where the first
one taken iu the Thames goes to the
Queen's table; in New York they will
not eat lampreys, miscalled "lamper
eels," which are delicacies in Connec
ticut, and in England some old king
I never could keep a record of kings
died from a surfeit of lampreys. With
theso prejudices in miud, aud I hate
all prejudices except thosa which I
entertain, I decided to eat the loon.
There may be differences among
loons, os there ore between pigeons
and squabs. I prefer an adult pigeon
to a squab, there is better chewing ou
it, but if a man wants real hard chew
ing, with a flavor of raw fish, let him
tackle an adult loon. That bird could
not be picked; it was skinned, and iu
its stomach there was a cattish re
cently swallowed, one partly digested,
aud the bones of another. The trig
gers of the peotoral fins of tho cattish
were set, but the stomioh of the loon
did not seem to be troubled by that
fact. Fred Mather, iu Forest and
Stream.
Tripe In France.
Frauce, iu contradiction to Paris, is
not a country of snails and frogs' logs,
but of tripe. Where it all comes from
is one of the mysteries. Everybody
of moderate and lesser means eats
tripe; it is cookod in many ways, and
is disguised in none, which may iudi
oato that the French faucy it. Next
to tripe there is nothing you are so
sure of getting at a French table
d'hote as etowod rabbit, especially if
you do not have a preference for it.
Tho French boiug naturally u little
suspicious since the days of tho Prus
sian sicgo, these rabbits are always
old with the hoods ou.
BOY THAT WENT WITH TEDDY.,
Only boy we ever had,
Him that went with Teddy,
Tough and husky sort o' lad,
Rough an' always ready,
Pomowhat wildish in his way,
liuther play I gues9, thau ftr1
But as honest as the day,
Always true an' steady.
Didn't like to see him go,
Me an' his ol' mother.
Both our hearts a packln' woe,
We could so u r ce I y smother.
Loved our boy almighty dear,
An' it knocked us out o' gear
When he went an' left us here
'Lone with one another.
Used to sot here every night,
Me an' my ol' woman,
Talkln" 'bout the way he'd flght
When he met the foeman.
Knowed he'd never flinch a bit,
Knowed he wasn't built to quit,
Knowed, fur sure he'd noverglt
Back an inch fur no man.
Of'n 'fore we'd go to bod
I conld see her kneelln',
An' I knowed it was fur Ned
Thnt she was appealla'.
As fur me. I never learned
How to pray, an' In me burned
Kind of an oueasy durned
Guilty sort o' feelin'.
When the Denver people oome
To the rench a tolllu'
'Bout the fight, I made things hum
Duncln' an' a yelllu'l
Whooped fur Teddy nu' the rest
With the wildest sort o' zest.
While the heart within me breast
Was with pride aswellln'l
Keep a readln' on an' on
Whooped till mother hlntod
That I acted like I'd gone
Actually demented!
Then a cloud came o'er my eyes
An' I groaned in pained surprise
On one name they'd printed.
Nollilu' thnt the neighbors said
Could our sorrows lighten.
Every time they'd mention Ned
Soeined the cluch 'd tighten!
Only gleam o' sun thnt shot
Through our souls with mls'ry fraught
Was the one consolln' thought
Teat he died a llghtln'.
Denver Post.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
She "Our collego has adopted a
cry." "What is it boo-hoo?"
Brooklyn Life.
Edna "Your face seems familiar."
Jellaby "It is. Had it since I was
a baby." Tit-Bits.
Oldrider "After a bicyoleride, the
finest pick-me-up is " Newrider
"The ambulance." Indianapolis
Journal.
Stiggins "Bromlert is a man I
can't bear." Wiggins "What did
Bromlert ever do for you?" Indian
apolis Journal.
Doctor "This medicine is to be
taken on an empty stomach." Patient
"That's all right. .I've juBt been to
a five o'clock tea."
Sapsmith (sentimeutally) "What is
sadder than to have loved aud lost?"
Ilennypeck (promptly) "To have
loved and got her."
Mrs. Cobwigger "Do you wear
your mother's dresses cut down?"
Little Ethel "No. Ma belongs to
the rainy-day club and wears mine."
He "What is it about Whirly
that throws all the other fellows in the
shade?" She "I guess it must be
his family tree." Detroit Free Press.
Minnie "This weather is so try
ing, I must get something for my
complexion." Mamie "I didn't
know you had any." Indianapolis
Journal.
"Twiggs is a chronic kicker." "Yes;
but you've probably noticed that when
a clock strikes all the time nobody
pays any attention to it." Detroit
Free Press.
"Call a man a sad dog," said the
corn-fed philosopher, "and he will
look knowing and feel flattered; but
if you call him a miserable pup he'll
want to flght," Indianapolis Jour
nal. "Don't you hate to have meddle
some people try to find out what you
know?" "No; what bothers me is to
have meddlesomo pooplo try to find
out what I don't know." Chicago
Record.
First Mo in b or Musical Committee
"Does the now soprano's voice fill the
ohuroh?" Second Mombor "Hardly.
The ushors toll me thoro aro always
vacant scats in tho gallery," Dotroit
Journal,
Angry Pedestrian (picking himself
np) -"Tha next ncouudrol oh, I seel
It was a man on horsobaok. Never
mind, sir, it didn't hurt me. I
thought it was ono of them blamed
bicyolistsl"
Asking "What do yo(I thiuk of
Pufllngton?" Orimshnw -"Oh, ho is
the kind of a man who thinks that
whonho stops on ouoondof the country
the other oud flops up iu tho air."
London Fignro.
Father "Yofl, child, diamonds aro
bard anyway you considor them even
hard to got and hard to kocp." Dis
appointed Daughter "But, pa, thoy
'ro hordost of all to bo without."
Jewelers' Wookly.
Mrs. X. (observing her friond at
work upon tho floor of tho kitchen)
"Why in the world don't yoa got a
Bervant to scour your floor?" "Be
canso, my doar, I'd havo to scour the
town for a servant." Lifo.
"Papa, I want a pug-dog; theyVo
so 'ristocatio-lookiu'." "Bobby, what
do you mean by aristoeratio-looking?"
'W'y, they Iook9 liko they'd git hop
pin' mad if thoy had tor git a'quaintod
with auybody." Brooklyn Life.
His Wifo "Now yon won't forgot
any of thoso thine: I asked you to
bring homo." Tho Suburbanite
(doubtfully) "I hopo not. Suppose
you give me Bcnlod orders not to bo
opened till I roach tho city." Brook
lyn Lifo.
Supplicant "Bemombcr, sir, that
it is as easy for a came! to got through
the eye of a neodlu ax for a lioU man
to enter tho kingdom of heaven."
Miserly Millionaire "I know it; but
I don't expect to bnvo a cent with mo
when I preaout myso'f at tho gate."
Chicago News.