-Ty" .IllllhSaaial WW : i i '3 B, P. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER, 1890. NO. -11. - ssp Uli. AliLV. rOMECRAJfATKS, IrnsrrnMfs ivcrt and pomegfaBates (oat II.1HIC la the ml October sun; N..i.od knrw, wl.eo thv wen In flow And their life bad just begun. Whku was the sweet autl which wu thasour- Till they ripened one dj one. Tin Moom were bats of cardinal boo And trumpets of yellow flame; An. I atbe fruit to perfection grew TLeir red-coats were juat the amine. Then the darts of the aun cleft th rind In two, n.l their .leep red hearta burst out to Tlew, Kut till tli.-y were tsMteil, nobody knew hi-re the .weel and the sour rame. r ..r pomegranate mur Is a bitter cheat, lint lu-ciou tbln la a pomegranata aw e, t ! In youth-tine's hriirht and rosv bower A l-evy of maiden play, Tn.-ir fr.-h y..uni life It just In flower. Hut Ui.-h i- the sweet and which la the sour, 1'ray. ho w ill dare to saj lint there will come a day W lieu ilfe" "harp dart W ul cleave their heart. An. I ti.tcwe mut In adversity's hoar, ui.li ii.it ore im sweet and which la the soar. Zitella Cx:as. WHITE MARIE. a i.vui:i;i riavrtriov stobt. Marie i- s v hue, but knowing only black Su tte hi-r "m.uuiny. Two couples, lie an, l::un, and .like i a black brute) and M irif hae been is.mm-tnded to marry. Tho ii ih the mht lefore the double wed- 'ir.J.; ii. tt,- cabin is lighted by the red i-:. vi of a s.tii ts-ririr pine knot to the . l.itnn. y. (ifu.U over the atnoke- .! il nil.-, h. r handkerchief-covered In i.l -'nil ili 'i in her fat and shining HMlli. "In- looks miT her shoulder into the I ,i ki.. behind her. Her own bulky f.iin i- e vig.er.ttc.l into a shadow 4. i n r . . .ti bewail, aa.l round this n hou.-tie. n I. snake-like sprite of tM.rn i.f i h? ropes of smoke fii.ru tin- pine, jirmietti gleefully. 'lin.it ,,f ,, i.-.i-iij, tear are in tho wrmki- i.f the duky vnmig'i i.'ieik-. Ibr work-hardened finger ti . ti.l.'.. mi her knee, and her frame i,ui i i t .-. .n uii veiy. 'nik I. im .1 ! he praya. in deep ar.giii-h. "tli.tw pi." Suzette de right u u . N..w w 'at kin sli? do in dis ver trial en ti ihul.itioii 1 i is de f us time. . it kn n . I a. tu'ly give in. lMiaitit k - ink it lulit in do wilderness, en it't till wi.l -wanipt en dark et pitch en no n ny out. t)li, my Luwdt you unit till my littnp vrjfiu. Sin' iv.i-h to pray, but doe not look j wl.cn a -low, light step near the door on the dew-covered graae. Marie tan.l-i on the threshold, a picture of youth in tln rlut.'hea of dark despair, driwn on thp vast spaoe-canva which ie .trct. hi'.l from earth to the ttara. in.-i M.iri.' can remember, Suzette l.at it. .t failed t. meet her with a smile - the "mil.- it not forthcoming to hitht. At the. girl languidly place her h it on the ho ?, he eje the deject ed old form iti a way that show that si." fully c mprehendii the woman's fe. lint. Sle sihs and turn te the d . l.e peer out into the far- -i eailiiik' hi:i. Uticst ait one in a dream "' trrMiik'i', threatening aapecta and . i it umilile to flee from them. Sometimes, when the rapidly cur ririit ciotp It a e thintio-t in front of the ni.mn, the n-.RjVttie convexity of the nearest mountain shows, clear cut, actinst the sky. S. .im.l- of untlloyetl merriment from F.lvira's doini.-ile subordinate the ing- C of the hreee-tou. hed tree near by. They are the harmoniou thump .f a h.-injo and the retonant, drum-like hinting of l.are feet on a puncheon tl.N.r. i..w and then snatches) of I. 'I py, plauiation ong are sung amid l.iirtt .,f 1,. arty laughter. This merr making i intended to do noimr to the daw ning wedding-lay of Ike and Klvira. Neither had sought m irriar". -rhaps for the re a ton that tin y had not U-. ii taught fc think and decide for thetu.clves in matter where their own welfare was ronceroed ; but ti.iw that their I. aim had been cried by their ina-t.i't releutleaa agent, they i d raie no word of objection. In- Iiid. after the tirt faintly quetr en ition wat over, they began to feel i:te h.ii.v in being the cant of the P . ll. i't" lurl.iilent fun-makirg. I'lie banjo player" and "my crowd" I,.1 terms the ;eutoriau-lunged loungers who join in the choru to the rlniuele.t ttauas he invent, are seat .. tome in the door of the cabin, tli.Tt ...j the tl.N.r, with willowy bend iU i'"diet and clapping hand. Crica on.' ; liin. e. Ike; shuffl vo'se'f! 'Inke dat lon-j foot, you fool darky "'chrillv pi's a pickaninny wlu it wr jttlin.; and gyrating in a corner d kicking nnd lappin the wall his feet and hand a if bewitch- V'l ilii the mutie. "M-k urn bi.fe kick de high weddin flin:'- tiiigs out another. Then from ".e mouth of the leader: ' l'i h..;r r hit foot mek er hoi In de r..iin", 'I . in de croiin", hole in de groiln', le.' i.een y.T tence I leen ironeF i r I. ,ii, ,l:lrky wi.l er w hite shut on. Wiiiiiii: Ike rites fmmthe fl.wr with i tnouth-ttretching grin, and plant li'imsi-if in tl .-litre of the ring of fares, Hn, I -jr;ns hi performance by imply sway ing his hotly to and fro Htid hot.- and then dapping hi brogan sole niraitst the d.Hir. "Uitout, I'm wid yout DU floo k . . aint gwine ter hoi me. Oh, I'm ei alidin' down de now mountain ! llump. hump, he humps er lone, Po ole darkey alut much strong." chime in the deep roice of the random soloist. "He gettin in er weavin' way. Ike. do yo' be' cut her clean throo! Show urn whar you been raised l" about an enthusiastic admirer in spasm of glee. Mek Klvira jine im!" yell the banjoit. "Pull 'er out, mek er show up. Dey aint fitten ter marry le'n dey kin dance tcrgerr. See w'ich kiu outlaa de longes'l In an instant Klvira is drawn lite, the ring. Ike emit a defiant guffaw to greet hi antagonist. 'You'll find me ight yer on dit plank at sun-up, Klvira." he says; you better not tr. me; tek er gal, co one 'at a!nt long-winded." "Shuhl" This exclamation of su preme and defiant di-gust is all thai Klvira can spare the breath to say, as she vigorously bends herself to tht softest. She ain't gwine talk, laugh a woman above the roar of voice and nusic She" er savin r win; I boun you see Ike laid out lak er Iree fell on 'im. I done see too many women shuffle. Ike's er fool; site kiu do it en not half try. See er hoi 'ei dresa lak she i drivin er brood ei chicken; aha ain't even wuk 'et han'e." The dance continued till Ike began, indeed, to show sign of flagging. I'nder the applau-e ami enthusiastic praise of the audience, Klvira kept op brightly, and Ike slunk with hang ing head and quivering knee from the ring. For some moment Klvira re fused to quit the circle, but at luat she allowed two other aspirant for evlal to take her place, and she swaggered proudly from the ring. Marie turn gloomily away from the Joor, and close her ear to the sound of thi merriment. Mammy," she say, standing behind Suzette. who i lifting a live coal of fire from the hearth to her pipe. The woman has accomplished the trick in numerable times before with infallible dexterity, but now h.-r trembling fing er fail in adroitness, and the angry roal inflicts a bu n on her hard palm. "Mammy," Marie goe on, pantiug so ihat she can hardly speak, have you heard what Marse Johnson said about me and Jake?" The momentary sufferer of bodily pain appliea the smarting spot to her tongue, and then rubs it on her gown over her round knee with a greater -how of pain than the incident calls for, and obviously to excuse hersel' f'om making a reply to the girl's earn at query. "Mammy, continues Marie, her word almost inaudible, and touching be. bowed companion with a get u re of despair, "I can't bear it. O Ctod, I want to die!" "Honey," but no effort of Suzettc' ran induce the words to come forth which tremble in ho- brain. She low ers her turbaned head almost into her lap. Marie turns from her to the door with a deep sigh anil a face void o' blood. Whar you "gwine?" asks Suzette quickly. Let me alone a little while, mammy ; I'll be back soon. I feel I'm burning up, soul and body. Let me go out in the night air." She goe out into the fields. The ,-louds are swirling dark overhead, and dazzling electric hieroglyphics split their density. On, on she stride, the turbulence of ber mad thoughts giving springs to her feet. A fine mist is blown into her fevered face. A low, threatening rumbling come from the clouds, and the mighty trees) on the mountain are torture. I to groan ing in an upper current of air. The music in Elvira's cabin dies away into a faint hum. At last she finds herself on the river bank, and experien.-e a faint sensation of surprise to see that the ha walked so far. In fact, she .ant remember when she crossed the branch, about half-way between the river and her cabin. She does not wonder over it long, however. The water lashing the sandy beach is deep wid dark, and seems to have a voice of its own, a solacing kind of murmur which seem to promise to relieve her of her great, weighty, heart-breaking burden if nhe will allow it. The stream may le the great, lim pid, restful arm of find extended to embrace her. They tdiou'd un.l tier ll. ating somewhere, on the morrow, ind should know then that they had made a mistake in try in? to dipo of her a they had. Perhaps the sun would be shining th"n over the place ,he loved o well, for the hurrying clouds, w'.th their vivid gleams of lightning, seemed only to boast of I heir power to storm. The good, kind ,.ld colonel, who had t ot. she was sure, iiven the order for her sacrifice, would be back at Oaklawn ere her burial, and would look on her pale face witU sadness. She knew he would, and that the water of sorrow would rise into his kind eye, for he had a good heart and loved her in his way, and had spoken kindly to her many times. Mrs. Bickerstaff, tvay down in Charleston, should read the news and cry, for the kind-hearted lady hl wept tks deal. otTMjot m uiucu favored as sue haul boeu. Aud Harry might be at Miss Laura's side when he heard of it. His manly face should undergo a change. He, too, would recall some acenea which were lefore her tuiud'a eye, and which pained her even more than the pros iect of death. He would want to be back at the plantation on the day they laid her in the grave among the other slaves. If he could be at Oaklawn he would lay flowers on her coffin aud look sadly on her face. With the flowers might be some red roses like those he once twined among her raven tressves. Sh moved down to the eddying waters edge and laved her hand in it. A dazzling flash from the cloud re veals the rugged river bottom. Mud clogged logs and monster climy boul ders lie in repose there. Absently she tosses a stone into the w Lisp ring, bubble-strewn liquid thus would she sink, save her long, unbound hair, which would throw out it many arms to the stream's clutches. She would lie there among those finny and creep jrig things; they would crawl over her f aca with their tin v feet and ernnchhna. hungry mouths, and rest in the orbit of her eyes a they might in lb creivo of a stone. She shuddered, bnt she knew she should not know it. She herself would not be there, for she would be at rest rest, sweet rest. But she would not want them to have trouble in finding her on th morrow. She had read bow people were traced to their watery graves by some part of their attire being left on the ahore. She must leave something. The rib bon in her hair will suffice. She untie it from her warm ma of hair and make a bow of it on the bush. She remember now that be easayed to teach Harry to tie a bow once; aa thi thought warms her mind, she linger and draw tho bow's flying streamer in and out to make it parte smooth. Then she unlaces her shoes and tosses them on the shore behiud her. Her feature are now passive. She wonders it the plunge into blackness will give ber pain. Something touches her on the shoulder. It is Suzette, with gleaming eye and heaving bosom. "So, no, honey," she pants after her hard running. "No, 'at aint right You tek yo' II 11 shoes, my precious baby, my onlie' lill girl. Yer le'me put um on fur yon. No, my chile aint gwine to forgit w'at de Good Book say. You mus' put yo' trus' in Him en never shrink back. Me mus' try Hi sheep, but it all in his name. I know what you is got in yo' mind; but, honey, dat aint de bes' way. Yon mus' bear up. le Lawd got His eye on you, 'hind 'at black cloud up deh, same ez de moon kivered over. Now. honey, lay yo' haid in my lap des lak you usster," she went on persuasively, pulling the stunned girl down upon the sand. "I done been pray in', en now Gawd sen me light. At'a right, cryin gwine do you good. Now lay still; I mus' talk ter de Lawd ergin, kase I kin see you Is gittin in de reconcile way." "Iwd, my Gre't Master," then prayed Suzette, with uplifted eyes and her hand on Marie's tresses, as the girl sobbed in her lap. Lawd, you know all 'bout me en dis yer lill chile. I done been com in' ter you time en ergin en got new strength; but, Good I-awd. dis yer is de wusa yit wuss'n all put togerr. She need some he'p f urn high up, for she I sore 'plexed wid de cup at won't pasa 'er now. Ijiwd, I gwine hush up now, but I'm still waltin. Dis do seem lak it wrong, but you know be', en me en her is willin ter bide by yo will. He'p as ter keep we-all's feet In de narrow road. I done feel submissive, Ijwd, but show de po' lill chile, too, lak you done show me. Amen." The bumble supplicator dropped her trembling lips upon the white neck, In her lap, and both were still for a mo ment. Then Suzette whispered earnestly : Pray pray ter 'Im honey." Suzette could feel the girl's dumb up moving in her apron. Then si lence fell upon the pair, save the murmuring of the lapping water and tte voice of the wind in the trees on tlie mountain. Mammy" the girl's beautiful face rote from Suzette' lap damp with tear. "What, honey?" I know I was wrong, and yon are tight. God show me now." The wide sleeve fell from the white soft arms that stole round the woman's yellow neck, and the young f.tce was pressed close agiinst the old. 'It seemed like I just could not stand it," the young voice continued. Let's go home now. God pot me by birth in Jake's race, but I proudly rebelled, and had my vain soul placed on a h'gher worldly life, and so locked my Creator out of my being. I will do as Uiey say." She shuddered as they walked arm in arm homeward. "Mammy," presently. Yes, my chile." "Will you always stay by me?" Ez Gawd is my helper." "But, mammy, you just keep on praying. I will need It, God mnst not quit my aide." The clouds were Oiirmiog; waves of moonlight fell over thsj rolling; Und. A form tepp4 out of tile. uuk au. took Mane in bis arm. It was Harry. The poor girl shrieked with joy and then lay limp in his passionate em brace. Her overwrought nerves had given way. "I done think de good lawd wouldn't jes' 'low dat dretlle sin ter be consum mate," sighed Suzetle as she stepped into her cabin and left them alone in the moonlight. Will. N. llarben. Lincoln, the Lawyer. "Yes, we can doubtless gain yon us for you," aaid Abraham Lincoln to a man amicus te retain him; "we ran whole neighborhood at log gerheads; we can distress a wid owed mother and her six father less children and thereby get for for you six hundred dollars to which you seem to have a legal claim, but which rightfully belongs, it appears to me, to the woman and her children. "You must remember," continued Mr. Lincoln, that some tilings legally right are not morally right. We shall not take your case, but will give you a little advice for which we will charge you nothing. You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man; we would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some otbe way." Mr. Ilerndon, for twenty years Mr. Lincoln's law partner, and now his biographer, aays that he once wrote to one of their clients, "I do not think there is the least use of doing anything more with your lawsuit. I not only do not think you are sure to gain it, but I do think you are sure to lose it. Therefore the sooner it eoda the bet ter." "I see that you've seen suing some of my clients, and I've come down to talk with you about it," he said one day day to a lawyer, who had brought suit to enforce the specific performance of a contract. Upon seeing the evidence to be pre sented, Mr. Lincoln said, Your client U justly entitled to a dcr3, and I hall so represent it to the court; for i i against my principles to contest a clear matter of right." Some lawyers wou'd have contested the case until the value of the farm was consumed by the costs of litigation. Mr. Lincoln was a great lawyer when convinced of the justice of the cause be advocated. In trying a case, where most lawyers would object be would say he "reckoned" it would be fair to admit the truth to be so-and-so. When he did object to the court, and had heard his objection answered, he would say, "Well, I reckon I must b wrong." But when the case ended, aays one of Mr. Lincoln's colleagues at the bar, the adversary would see that what Mr. Lincoln had been so blandly giving away was simply what be could not keep. He might yield six points, but by adhering to the seventh, on which the whole case rested, he retained everything that would help win the Good Roles for Winter. The following rules are worth heed ing by those who believe that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: Never lean with the back upon any thing that is cold. Never begin a journey uiitil the breakfast has been eaten. Never take warm drinks and thee immediately go out into the cold. Keep the back, especially between the shoulder-blades, well covered ; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room establish the habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth open. . Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. Never omit regular bathing, for un less the skin is in active condition the cold will close the pores, and favor congestion and other diseases. After exercise of any kind, never ride in an open carriage or near the window of a car for a moment; it is dangerous to health and even to life. When hoarse, speak as little as pos sible until the hoarseness is recovered from, else the voice may be perma nently lost, or difficulties of the throe be produced. Merely warm the back by a fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed to heat after it ha become uncomfortably warm. To so expose the back is debilitating. When going from a warm atmos phere into a cooler one keep the mouth closed, so that the air may be warmed by its passage through the nose ere it reaches the lung. Never stand still in cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise ; and always avoid standing on ice or snow, or where the person is exposed to a cold wind. The reason why Are cracker are -J ways covered with red paper is that reJ Is the festive color In China, and that firecrackers are use chiefly on festive occasions. The oldest man in Great Britlan Is Hugh MacLeod, a Scotch crofter, who was born on the 24th of November, 1783 He lives In country Ross, and is stll healthy and vigorous. The boundary line between the United States and Canada is distinctly marked from Lake Michigan to the Pacific by cairns, pillars of iron, earth monuds and tun par wwrings. Umbar HOUSES OF THE ROMANS. Augustus Found a Capital of Brick and Left one of Marble. In the early ages of Rome, the ho.isea were merely thatched cottages. After the city was burned by the Gauls, they were built in a more spacious aud con venient style, aud of more substantial materials; but so great was the haxte to have them erected, that no attention waa paid to the regularity of the streets. Every one set down his habitation ac cording to his own tasteor fancy. The success of the llouian arms in Greece served to introduce an immense improvement in the Roman architect ure, and toward the Augustan e a, Home might well boast of the magnifi cence of her buildings. During the reign of Augnstua, tho improvement seem to have been conducted on a very extensive scale, and to have justified the Emperor in exclaiming, that he had found Rome of brick and had left it of marble. Still, however, the streets continued narrow and orooked, and the houses were fox the most part of wood, generally of three stories, and very inconvenient. A dreadful conna gation in the reign of Nero reduced tho greater part of llome to ashes, but it was soon after rebuilt with increased splendor. The atreeU were made of greater width, and laid out with more regularity, and the height of the houses M restricted to a certain standard. Every house was ordered to be isolated, and to be built of stone, so as to be less subject to destruction by fire. This also contributed to the health aud mag nificence of llome, though there were many at the time who centured the im provements, and pretended that the narrow streets and lofty houses pro duced an agreeable shade in the heat of summer, and rendered the city both pleasant aud salubrious. The vestibule of tho golden palace of Nero waa so extensive that it had three porticoes, each a mile in length, and inclosing a large basiu of water, sur rounded by ao many buildings that they presented the appearance of a town. The door was made in general of dif ferent kinds of wood, auch as cedar. cypres, elm and oak, but sometimes of iron or brass. The doors of the temples were often inlaid with ivory and gold. Tuey were, in general, elevated above fie street by a flight of steps; at leatst, this was the case in the temples, and. in all probability, also, in the houses of llome, though the doors of the houses of Pompeii are found on a level with the f jotpaths. The door opened inward, like those uned by us; but among the Greeks, and in order to confer honor on the meritorious citizens among tho Romans it was made to open outward, flenoe arose the custom, when a person intended going out of a house, of knocking on the door, to warn those who were passing by to get out of the way a circumstance which serves to explain some passages of the dramatic vithors of that periotL When the door was shut it was secur ed by bolts and locks.- sometimes two bolts were nsed, one above and theother below. The lock seems to have been movable, like our padlock. Knockers or bells appear to have been generally nsed. The gate served as an entrance to the hall, three sides of which were support ed on pillars. The side op)osite to the entrance was fitted np as a hbjary. where the family archives were kept. The hall was the principal bed-chamlHT, and the spct where domestic manufac tures were carried on. lnancient times it served as the kitchen and place w here the family supped. It was also tho room where the noble famillies kept statues of their ancestors and received company. It was ornamented with paintings, statues and valuable furni ture, and was divided by curtains. Regimental Women. So baggage train is allowed to a Per. sian regiment theirs, in appearance, is quite unlike any other onward mili tary movement neither are commis sary stores taken along with them. No tjnts have they. These Eastern r gi m'Lti travel quite comfortably their thirty miles a day. They are provided with substantial entertainment before the early morning start, and before set of sun will reach their next Appoint ment, where all will be accomodated for t'ae night. The colonel's lady makes the trip in style; a light horse litter, over which is thrown a scarlet cloth is at her service, and she reclines, unseen by any gap ing crowd, content witn her own thoughts and happy dreams. Follow ing "the lady of the regiment" are women wliose husbands are of lesser note, closely veiled, one upon either side of a plodding mule, whi'e a donkey trots stolidly on, ben ring all essentia' equipments and comforts for the day. Once wellon the way, these army parties fall apart in groups, as official position and comradeship warrant; tho officers with stately dignity keepiug by theui 8 ; ves, having within call an attendant to repelntiah their pipes. Useful Birds. There la a well authenticated a xount of an English barber who traioet a starling to say, "Gentleman wants to be shaved," and hung the bird out in his ou'erroom to warn him of the earn ing ot customers. The same blr.', the story foes on, soon learned to ell out, "Ge itleuien, pay your inoneyP when the barlr'a wcrk was done, and never got the two speeches mixed. A milduer of Paris has, a& wording to a French journal, put a parrot to a much better use even than this English bar ber made of his starling. She has trained the b'rd to call out v becever a custqjnet enters her shop: "Oh, isn't the pretty!" It Is asserted that the milliner! busl Ma WM very toon doubled, EIsECTRIC WONDERS. SOME REMARK AHCK TmiGS BB. -. ViQ ACCOMPLISHED. What the Powerful Agent is Doing fot 8ciencs. Very remarkable results have at tended the treatment of cancer cases by electricity in England. The patient is anaesthetized ; the current is then passed through the tumor and all the tissues for some inches around it by means of fine insulated needles, so aa not to injure the skin. The effects produced by the action of electricity consist in a cessation of growth, grad ual disappearance of pain, some shrink ing and hardening of the tumor, and enlarged glands, followed by improved nutrition and a better state of health. The growth, aa a whole, does not dis appear, but remains as an inert mass, composed, in all probability, of fibrous tissue alone. Dr. Harsons of the Chel sea Hospital, who has effected mauy cures by the adoption of this treat ment, says that a repetition of the ap plication is seldom necessary, and that in nearly every case one operation will cause atrophy of the growth. Tho majority of his cases have been those in which the knife had failed, or in which the disease had progressed too far for the knife. The big guns turned out by the Eng lish arsenals are now fitted with a de vice to facilitate firing at night. The ordinary sights are illuminated by a small incandescent lamp, the rays from which, passing through a lens, are con verged, so that only a minute point or line of sight, just sufficient to distin guish the sight, is obtained. By means of an adjustable resistance the light can be modulated to suit the degree of darkness of the night or the eye of the observer. The opening of the first submarine telephone cable has just taken place. The cable runs between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, and is thirty-two miles lung, the total length with the overhead line being 180 miles. On this line there are five intermediate stations, all of which can telephone and tele graph simultaneously with all the other stations. An electric brake, designed by Trof. Forbes, has been tested with great success on an entire train of carriages with which it has been fitted for use on a line in Russia. The chief gain is in point of rapidity of action. A train of average length will feel the brake power throughout its length almost in stantaneously as against three or four seconds required by the vacuum brake. An electric indicator of the names of railway stations is coming into use in England. A magnetic apparatus turning a roller on which are printed the names of stations in good visible letters is fitted over the window of every carriage with an electric bell to call the attention of passengers to the .change. The instrument are connect ed in series, and are under the control of the guard, who changes the names by a simple touch of a button before the train stops. A novel application of electricity is a triturator for grinding drugs, which is ingeniously fitted up to work by elcciric motor, to save labor in chem ists' shops, or for drug grinders. The inortar or mortars to the number re quired are made to revolve by the elec- tri.; motor, and a very heavy porcelain pe-tlo hangs inside, the necessary grinding being assured by the revolv ing of the heavy pestle by friction against the side of the mortar. A vigorous crusade ha been begun in England to put a stop to the system of foisting sham electrical appliances upon an ignorant public. A vendor of "electropathic belts," which were said to cure sciatica and innumerable other ailments, has been brought into court and punished for obtaining money un der false pretences. An improved search light consists of a powerful arc light, usually of about 25,000-candle power contained in a metal cylinder about thirty inches high by twenty-four to thirty inches in diameter, one eud of which is closed by a silvered conclave reflecting lens. The apparatus is on a pivot, so that it may be revolved around the centre and elevated and depressed at will. As or dinarily used the beam of light pro jected from the cyclinder is so con centrated that at a distance of 1,000 yards from the ship it illuminates a path only about fifteen yards in width. When necessary this path can be widened. A search light of 20,000 candles is supposed to reveal objects at a distance of two and a half miles. Rubbers. Much of the discomfort of rnbbet shoes would be avoided if the wearers of them were a little more discriminat ing. Rubbers are of inestimable value in wet weather, but they should be in stantly removed when the pavements become dry. Being water-proof, they prevent the escape of the natural ex halations of the skin. Wet feet re sulting from confined perspiration are often more injurious than an unpro tected exposure to the elements would be. Rubbers, like umbrellas, should be used only transiently.' Shoe and Leather Reporter. ' TALK OF THE DAY. When a woman wants the earth. It is with a view of giving it to soma man. These day ono does not neod to joitv secret society in order to get the grip. A man who itches for fame must scratch around lively to secure It- Epoch. Mis Chestnut "Did you sit undei the mistletoe?" Mis Waluut "I din n't have to. " A young man whoso girl went back on him says that ha sufTeres from heart failure. The king ofSi.ru ha9 just married twenty new wives and yet people talic about alara ease. Patti has one thing in common with the Chicago girl she can spread her self over a large aria. Quizzler "What are you doing now?' Scribbler 'l am writing Sen ator Boodle's autobiography." Family Pride. Little Elsie EoJer- colt (of Boston) "Mamma, when you get to heaven won't you be an Kniier cott again?" 'She's as sweet as sujrar." Adult erated sugar?" "No. Why?'' "On, 1 supiiosed it must be, she has a sandy complexion." Golly!" gasped little Johnny as ho finished the second crock of stolen preserves. "I feel as if 1 had bee" smoking pa's pipe." "l'ou say that both duellists fefl dead." "Yes." '-Great heavens! What were the weapons used?" "1'ue American toy pistol." He got the quarter. "If I give yoi. a cent, Bobbie, what would you do with it?" "I'd buy a postal card ap write to you for a quarter." Whon you see a man who kisses his children in public, you may bo pretty sure that he keeps the seats of their pantaloons well dusted at home. It 1 said that the grippe micro!) clings tenaciously to paper money. People should, therefore, handle it with the greatest caution, particularly f 1,000 bills. She Knew It Was Coming. He fat the ball) "Do you know 1 have de cided uever to get married?" She (hastily) "Let us go into the con servatory." Just Playing. Mr Jack Diamond "You hardly look on your marriage as a serious thin:." Mrs. Jacrf Diamond "Why, how could it bo serious on 11,500 a year?" Iernor-ince Gained by Experience. "What does a man know about a wo man's dress, anyway?" scornfully ak ed Mr. B. "He knows where the pocket isn't," was Mr. B.'s reply. Mrs. Winks "So you have taker another companion 'for bolter or for worse, eh?" Mrs. Secondtrip "Only for better, my dear. Ho can't possible be worse than the other ono was." Fame may be ornatnentil. but it isn't much use to the man who has to hustle seventeen hours out of the twenty-four for his daily bread, with pie never any nearer than the horizon. Some fashionable young men wear two pins in the necktie. It U to bo hoped the pretty girls will not adopt the fashion of wearing two pins in the belt One often causes trouble enough. Tho funniect thing in tho career of the carousing cat is when he sits on a back fence placidly watching a wo man trying to come within several miles of him with a job lot of brie -librae A Temporary Gap in Society. Firt Newsboy "Are yer goin' to de ball dis eve?" Second Newsboy .'. iw. Me tailor forgot tor put a handkerchief pocket in me dresscoat and I had tor send It back." Incongruous Hopes. Mr. Bascotn "Do you know what Silas Slick ex pects to be after he grad antes from college?" Mrs Backlot "Wul, 1'vo heern that he has sanguinary hopes of bein' a missionary." A boy with a future. "Tommy. said a Chicago youngster's mother, there is a great big blot on you copybook. "Xo, mamma, you're mis taken. That's only a period. Our teacher is awfully nearsighted." She (Boston) "Have you ever at tempted dephlogisticate the eephrat ic immiscibility of the pneumatologioal andydrousnois involved in the myrioramic protoplasm?" He "Well, not exactly. But I've eaten scrapple." Needed Regulation. Mr. Soaker "1 see that the postmaster-general hopes to regulate the mails." Mrs. S. (who was awake when he came home at : a. m.) "Well, he may well expend some of his efforts about this locality!' Rescuer (to beautiful rescued) "I see you are fair and bewitching, but I can woo and win you. I Htn married." Rescued "But. (ieorge, it is t, your own wife." George Pshaw! I never did have a real romance in m life." Question of Woman's Sphere. Do mestic man "I pity I'attl. Shu would be much happier at home with little children about her." Practical friend "But think of her sinjinj a baby to sleep with a fJ.OO.j a ni,fht voice." Physician (to Mrs. Col. Blood, ot Kentucky) "How did your husband pass tho night, Mrs. Blood?'' Mrs, Blood "He seemed quite comfortable, sir, and asked for water several times." Physician (with a crave loolc) I "H m still flighty." ' Mrs. Srnitem "Bobby, yo;i bad boy, have you been fighting with Tommy Siimson again? Dear, dear! I shuil i have to get you a new suit." lloh'.v That's nothing, ma. Von ought to see Tommy Siimson. His ma may I have to get her a new boy." I Most women have. Caller "How i old Is your sister, John.iie?'' Johnnie ("Belle O, she has two ages. One 'In the Bible; that's 24; the other is tho 1 one she tells people 20." Belle (u.l I denly appearing with terrible enipha . sis) "Johnnie, mother wants to speak ho you. BMerly Sweenes. Minnie "Mr. Binx actually tim- , posed to me last night. I uever wh ; to turprised in all my life." You needn't have been. His so'. ambitioa is to be thought eccentric." Terrs Haute Express. "With the present rate of Increase aa basis. It Is estimated that a century hence this country will have a population of 904.921.C86. Napoleon III. got his title, tho third, for the second never reigiied, by a com positor mistaking the exclamation points "I 1 1" for the Roman nuuienv's III. The proportion of married couple who live to ce'ebrate lh-dr golden wed ding is under one in a thousand. NEWS IN BRIEF. The cultivation of tobacco has been forbidden in Egypt, The re ord for sv iniming uu ler water is 113 yards one foot. It is held by J. Flulry, an Englishman. The issues of Bibles by the American Bible Society during seveiitv-three years amount to o2,7'M,07o copies. A 1 tlie railtoad b' ldge in the United States together are '.i,-Vi in lea long Ti ere are -JOS,74'. of th."iu. Tim baton used in concerts by con ductor i said to have been introduced into Knir.aii'l by Spor. in 1SJ0. It is said tint the hor-e firs came from North Alrlca, was u-e 1 in the service of man at lea t ll.tiuo years ago. It cits the Biitis'i government i d00,00J a ear to supKrt tueen Vic toria and her immediate family. A Scotch phsiciau lias discovered that p'ayiny on the b igpipe wears away the pi ijers front te. th m four ears. Camlia is the same a - Crete. It is an island In the M di'errauean, l."0 miles long, aud has a p pulation of 2 0,0 X. The stock of cold has declined during the pust year about 510,10 i,tiK. w hile the stock of silver has increased ?:.". 00O,i 00. A Chilian an named Lee-lli has taken to farming near Tu.are, Cal. n mix I y acres of lau.l be cleared '.',000 profit last i i ar. The new Jt ;itm"tte factory near Pitts ouig will cost SJ0 ,000, and will I the largest, of any single tlass furnace in the worid. The iTetiiTerson Steel Cotnpiny, who have made such a success of their new steel making prore.-s, are about doubling their Alabiina plant. According to the Army II. -ulster f"l lS'.tO, the army of the Tinted S ates con sists or 2s, 7'.'2 oMicers an 1 men and Too retired ollieers and ineu. ll-'tg .bind cons-s s of two islinds in .n N rth Sea. "J'i nii es from the mouth of the Kibe. Aiei, tine -i iai ters of a square unle; popidat on, 2,'mjo; leiigii n, Lutheran. A wild sweft r.r:mg- has lieen .lis covered growing in the n r;he u t art of 11. rula. The It it t iia .gs on tt.e tiee aii the jrar ion .!, often for six months aflf. it is in li y rip--. On an average th-re are thirtj-uve more Uys than giilsborn in New York city every week. n the average liny Iiioiemalcsth.il females die. Ni the female popul ttioti grows more rapidly th n the male. Some relic hnut.r has cut out an 1 cartied away from the I'nion College building, l:i ci,eiiect.iil V, N. V., a sect on of window sill in which ex Piesideiit Arthur cut his name years ago w lien a student there. The largest black dl itnoii I ever found bus lecently been Inougl.t to this country from the mines of liahia, Brax.il. This diamond is about two mci.es in length, weighs 307 1-2 carats, and is valued at S"),0-i0. There are drifts of snow m the Littlb Smoky Mountains i.f Idaho that are fifty feet deep. The-e .Iritis are rem nants of the heavy snowfall of last winler, and it is co jectuied that it will tke two more hot summers to melt them. Th" heart t-it 1't-s in Napoleon Bon uparle's body under He dome of I.es Inval des, in Palis, is s-a d to l.e that of a young lamb, the Emperor's heart having been eaten by ra sal't.'i the pj si iii.n t. -in ex.uiinaiou of his remains tua le in 1SJ1. Mine. Je Mendonea, wife of the Bra zilian inemlierof the 1'aii-Ameiicaii del egation, la ks politics, as well as weather, in the best of English. She is pioiioimced by Mr-. liners "a perfect type of Spanish beauty." Both her beauty and her Enuiish are ind g-i.ous, however as she was hoi u in Maine of generations of Yankee ancestors. Lavender Is a unlive of the south of Eur.. e bold- ring on the Mediterranean It is en t:ated pi tceteii-iel m Eng land for di-didii g the oil, but we do not know of any lavender farm in this country, although the plants sre com mon lu gardens. I Aliamp wl.oo ii.t'-llecl ua' cililvrxvas I far above bis piolV-ssioti was recently found at Bangor, Me, II isonly baggifge ' w.isasTnali tu.le oice c i'.l. ct um tif Im -ks, I Including "'He 'unless ous of .le,.n ! .lac in s l,'i)i;s-..iu,'' the woik--o: Hal c, ' Di.nias, a copy of S iakn-pi ate, anc llou.er's I liad. The Hindoos new r tat m a', a d the Might of 1.1. Mid dr ves them c ay. All a Mol-ainiiit'ihm I as to do n on let tos'ai t a war is to dip li.s ha d In any kind of I rood and tap it t-u oi t- of the Hindoo teinp es. It isaoudo . charm th .tstirs up the elTe.i. n te nature of l' e II n.b.o ai.tl g Vr-s t! ten ti.e ciiur.ino of fanatics. The ex-Einpre-s Eugenie has eiterel the ranks of royal authors. lue of her ellor S has, it is said, met with a Cold reception. It was entitled "The Ite tiiin of the Wandeier," and was a wel come to Prince BaUenbt-rg to Balmoral alter Ins last escipe from his family and suhseqiieut liltle jauni on the Con tinent. Tamagno, the great, tenor, was ab ig Jtage poller before his remirkalil po. .is of voire w.-ie levealed. He do s not favor his f irmer craft, how ever, when he is on h:s travels. If a p.,r er demands what he tfg. rds as too liint-li fr carrying hi-trunk be calmly sli nil .'crs It liiinseif with all his old-time skill. Recent d'scoveries among ancient tombs in E'riiii., 1'alv, umnist kahly show '.bat dent -try was practiced as f r back as six cent mas In-fore the Ohrif'tMli e:a. Seveta ol thei-k: J's evimued hid f lse tet th. carved f uSi those of some large an itual -; h !e in any o. the natural teeth had g Id filling. Mr. PviiP, tho r.ote 1 Horne-I. uler,a' wavsdecl lies to say what dis oiiteuied t nan's, who come to him comp a n ng of their landlords, slim. 1 i do, l. aus', as he t xp ai'.s, "Mr. B.t four says that II would I e lilega', but I can leii you tin t.me of day." Then he i ui S out his waf. h and shows il to the te-ant. On the tlial face is the bold legend: "i ay no rent;" Prince IIortert Bismarck cherishes caitf'illy the wreck of a watch which be carr.ed during the Franco-Prussian war and which stoilel a bullet that otherwise might have ended uis life. The bone of sa nie preh't-ti i ic giants have been unearthed In-ar Annistou, Ala. O..C of the thigh bones was sixty two inches Ion? an I t he slviiiN averaged thirty-four inches in arcumfeieiK-e. The great exhibition held in Eordon, England, in lS"il, was attended by !, UoV.B'o persons and left a prolil of f 1, 0O0.'25. It remained open from the 1st of May to the 11 th of October, is .t i UJIIUIIP m VV-.' IlsVSZ-ai --
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