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B, P. BOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor ud Proprtttor.
VOL. XLVII.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22. 1893.
NO. 14
hid wrci LH K,
C, writer reft 1 11 ic !
Uvnt too. j;st to please a friend,
B not to 6AfuiUt lo
lu tho ny your stori nd?
icilciiu't vou now and ifcen coatriv
lo let th lovfrs wed,
hor have ttie h r.inf arrive
To rlud the bwru deadY
1L fair aprnnrfi thing! of liim
r not ! -revet jbA ;
Aud Ten in ih vaiecf atrife
At moments that art elad.
O cd t yd to or ord of doubt
Admit h little n.mb
Of aun-hii,e now and then, irttbout
Iti suing txli to auia.su ?
uit L'iasunc ever happy bud;
yt.it cloi.J.na every iiour.
Q lit tuenriiiji ail our god tth. mad,
Quit uihMu,; eeet thing tourl
Vi j rt ilied tf reptuera who
t-'mbitter every cup
it.M J ! ve blltu'id whlner, do
K r pU a Make let upl
-live treat.
0UT 0F 1Q11EMIA-
Lisa came in with flushed cheek
aud br lliant eyes
Laura, bending over a spirit lamp
on the littered table, glanced up Irotu
her brewing.
'I waited awhile for vou, bat as
you did cot come " she observed.
lifting the small copper kettle from
the slender blue Bame.
"Why did you wait one moment?"
cried Lisa.
She lingered somewhat over the
simple operations of removing her
gloves and putting up the books she
Drought in. bhe presently feathered
herself together with an effort.
Did vou get any lunch for your
elf?" Laura was calmly sipping her tea.
-No."
I "No? Laura, how could you? To
w.rk all day at those Illustrations
without eating! Do you mean to say
you have had nettling at all since
breakfast?"
Laura, instead of replying, cast a
circular glance about the room.
'What became of the buns? We
bad some buns left, had we not?"
Lisa went to an ancient and some
bow picturesque chest of drawers,
and from under an iniDrovised drapery
of half a yard of old brocade brought
out a paper bag.
Their eyes met, and in a moment
both girls had broken into Ion;; shrieks
of lauuhter, ending on Elsa's part Id
half-strangled sob.
'Oh, Laura, I am afraid I can't
stand it much longer! It Is so so
degrading."
Degrading?"
Laura had onsuaied her bun
was now gathering up the two
anese cups and saucers.
and
Jay-
Did you lunch to-day?"
"Yes."
L.iura nodded.
With Mr. V'arian. I suppose?"
Elsa only made a little additional
motion with her pretty head. Then:
'Oh, Lauia, you don't think there's
ny harm in It do you?" she pleaded.
Harm?"
"That I should have happened to
meet Mr. Varian oncj or twice and
that he has asked me to take lunch
with him? You see, It Is not as
though he were a complete stranger.
As long as he knew grandfather a
little and knows who I am, too, why
it's different somehow. Dou't you
think so?"
"In your case no, I don't think
there is any harm exactly."
"Laura! You say that so curiously!
Don't you think Mr. Varian is is a
an "
"An honorable man? I hope so,"
rejoined Laura, color. ng in her turn
rapidly under her rich dark skin. '-In
any other case I should advise you to
be more care fuL"
"You're alwavs advising me to be
more careful. But I don't know any
one moi3 independent or more care
less as to what other people may
think than yourself," then remarked
the younger girl in a tone a trifle ag
grieved. In my case it Is very different,'
was the short reply. "I am not
pretty. You are."
"There are times when you are
very, very handsome, Laura," said
Elsa's soft voice with earnest convic
tion. .But it was not quite half an hour
before even up there, where the last
rays of the summer twillnt lingered
longest, Laura was obliged to push
the work from her. As she did so,
waking from the creative absorption
jn which she had been lost, a singular
sound attracted her, coming from the
other side of the room. Getting to
her feet she saw that Elsa was sob
bing, with her face buried In the de
moralized upholstery of the sofa ted.
"What is It?" said Laura very
gently and firmly. But already Elsa's
lace was buried once more, and this
time upon the shoulders of Laura'
Stray stuff dress.
Nothing, nothing, Laura! But,
oh, I feel so so unhappy and
wretched: I know I'm very, very
weak. But It's so dreadful being so
poor and living so so "
"I warned you, you know, dear,"
came Laura's quiet voice.
"Oh, I know, I know! You are 30
brave aryl strong and talented! But
I don't believe I ever shall succeed.
aud and "
Tbeie was a little pause, during
which Elsa's sobs grew full of dreary
lespalr.
"You must go home, Elsa."
There was a .-ote-ting movement
of her palpitating little Csrure.
"Yes. You must go back to youi
people. You are too tender, too deli
cate too sensitive for this sort of life.
You know I told you," the girl weut
on a little wearily, "that making
one's own living and striking out in
dependently for one': self wai not
so easy as it might sec x. If a girl
have a good home, even though it
we:e so simple a one, she is, perhaps,
afet and happiest in its shelter."
"You mean a girl like me," said
Elsa, sitting up and ling her head
with dreary sagacity. "You know that
nothing would induce you to go back
to the sort of life which I should
lead on the farm with grandfather
and Aunt Polly. But you are differ
nt so different Some day you will
surely succeed, whereas I "
Laura was silent a moment.
"And Mr. Varian?" she finally said.
She felt the presence of the blush
an the other's cheek which she could
cot see.
"Don't don't! Don't speak ot bits
in In that way!" breathed Elsa.
-
"Coma in," called Laura a wee
titer.
The summary invitation bad pyl
Jentlv not been heard, for the knftCK
was repeated after a discreet Inter
val.
This time Laura rose, and, pencil
in hand, opened the door herseif.
"I am very glad to see you, Mr
varian." she said gravely. "Come la"
- Oi the two It was not she who was
embarrassed. Laying down her pen
cils she pushed a chairs'lghtly towan
him with the gesture of a queen.
"Mr. Varian," she said, "I have
inown you but a short time. Prac
tically we are strangers. Y'et I thiuk
we shall understand each other.
do you the credit of believing that 1
can speak frankly to you. I asked
vou to come here to see me for a
special reason, which I shall broach
at once. You are aware," she con
eluded, -that Elsa Miss Hart ha
returned to her home and friends?"
"Indeed? 1 had no idea of It
No."
Laura dropped her eyes for a mo
ment
"You make It more difficult for m
n say what I wished," she observed
lu a momeut. "She has gone back
to her fr.ends because she was far toe
sensitive and delicate a l.ttle creature
to face the hand-to-mouth, struggling
existence of a female art student suc
cessfully. She should never have at
tempted It I blame myself now, foi
1 love the child dearly. Still, hei
year of such exper.ence as she has
known here would do her no harm,
rather good, perhaps, were It not foi
one thing." aid here those gray eyes
resteJ full upon the young man again,
"aud with that you, Mr. Varian, ar'
connected."
i. jvtt
The gray eye flashed scornfully.
"It Is unworthy to dissemble:''
cried Laurx -If you have given
that poor child cause to think thai
you love her, and have taught her tc
love vou in veturn, there is no reason
why you should attempt so to coucea'
the fact.
"Pardon me. I have been urmeces
larlly rude and hasty. But I am
Elsa's best friend, I think. I know
her very thoroughly. Her happ ness
seems to have become, in some sense,
my responsibility since she left
the safe shelter of her home
to be with me to try the sam
life that I have tried. Mr. Variac
I believe Elsa is very unhappy now.
And
"And you think she is unhappy be
cause I have trifl d with ner affec
tions? Led her to fix them upon n'
w hen "
"Of course, you are a mau of ttu
world, Mr. Varian, and Elsa is a
tn.-re little country girl," interrupted
Laura, with rapid utterance. Her
case somehow, did not seem so very
clear after all. And strong and col
lected as she always was she wa
Growing strangely nervous now.
"But Elsa is a good, pure girl,
worthy to be the wife of any man,'
she hurried on "And " She
paused abruptly.
"I honor you more than I can say
.'or what I have seen of you within
the last ten minutes," said Varlan's
voice at this juncture. "l ew women
would have had such directness, such
loyalty to a friend, such courage.
But there is a mistake here. 1 I
cannot marry Miss Hart."
Laura raised her head. For a mo
ment they measured each other.
"You cannot marry "
"No Because I do not love hei.
I have looked upon her as a pretty
child nothing more: and mindful of
her grandfather's kindness to me the
summer that I was thrown from my
horse when riding near his place and
laid up under his roof for weeks, I
have tried to do what little I could
for her. That is all. I sought her
out, not for herself, but because she
was your friend because she war
lear you."
She had turned ashy pale. Thb
pallor of her cheek was rejected on
Verian's. He bad not thought to
speak so soon. Their eyes held each
other for a long, breathless pause. In
an instant the young man was on his
knees it lur side.
"Laura: Laura!"
"No, no, no!" She shrank away
from bis touch: but he bad seen the
expression of her eyes, and all bis
pulse beat in the intoxication of a
new hope.
"You must go away; you must
never come back," she said, hoarsely.
"Laura' You can't mean that?"
the poor fellow gasped.
She had risen to her feet
"Why? Why?" he stammered,
following ber as she retreated from
him. A light burst upon htm, In
duced by something In her lace.
'It cannot be that You are
not thinking of Elsa, of Miss Hart?
But this is folly, madness! For a
girl like you head and shoulders
above other women such a stand Is
Incomprehensible."
"She loved you; 6he trusted me,'
sa d Laura, rigid and white In ber
stfort at selfcontrol.
"Good heaven:" the man exclaimed,
driven to bay. -you would not have
mc marry a girl I do not love simply
because she happened lo fancy other
wise? I deplore the delusion, but
what more cau I do? Laura," he
pleaded. . "you will not send me
iway'"
"Yes." She still stood rigid, with,
downcast eyes.
"At least," lie pleaded again, after
a moment of silence, "will you not
tell mo that you care for me a
little?"
Not even then would she rals"? hei
eyes.
g"Vcry welt 1 shall go now, but 1
shall come back. Do you hear me?
Time works many changes and I
shall return."
And, so spying, he left her.
But she nver hoped for his return
She never expected it
The last of the warm days haa
flown, the autumn afternoons were
growing short, Laura worked on,
leading her own solitary life.
She had jresigned herself to thi
lolitude in which she seemed to have
been abandoned. Her pencil - never
faltered in these days. . But the hand
that wielded it had grown thin and
white, and the blue veins showed llko
delicate tracery under the transpar-
ent skio. '''
She was coming home late one dart
Afternoon, wben, la the gloom-flllcd
landing before her door, she made
out an indistinct form. It did not
more at ber accroach, and onlx wUoa
he had thrown open the door uid she
reco-rnize who it was.
Then she staggered back a little
"You see, L have come back as 1
told you I wouid," said Varian.
In the stronger light of the roort
ae saw how changed she was and bow
she trembled.
"Laura my poor girl!"
Even then she strove to push him
from her.
"Good heaven, Laura," he cried,
itepping back; '"do you not know
that Elsa Hart is married?"
"Married:"
He drew a folded paper from his
pocKet
"You see, she was married twe !
reeks ago, and to a fellow I happen i
to know, a clever young artist rising
In his profession, who spent bis sum
mer sketching on her grandfather's
farm. Now, Laura, will you come
to me?"
Oh, how could she, how could
ihc "
"Forget me eo soon?" lacghed
Varian. "Pardon me, dearest b:t I
think you rather overrated the depth
of her feelings. She liked me no bet
ter than sbe would have liked many i
other men who happened to be a lit tie '.
kind or attentive to her. She isaj
dear, sweet little woman, but" he
broke off impatiently "why should
we talk of 'her? You have not yet'
answered a question I once put to
you. "
"What question?" The girl's eye
would not meet his.
"I asked you once If you cared foi
me a little."
xnen, inaeea, ner gray eyes mcij
n s with the full glance of the Laura'
of old. I
'I think 1 have always cared-
.rom the flr-t more than a little
she said. Washington Tost
They Jutt Cut til. f'.nule In Twu.
How many collectors of coins know
anything aliout the curious half-pence
issued centuries ago by English au
thorities, half-pence in the truest
en e of the words, since they were
nothing more than minted pennies
;ut directly in half? Specimens of
these coins have been discovered fre
iuent:y among the bured treasures
which from time to time have b;en
'inearthed in Great Britain. In
Lao ashire in 1S40 were found a rare
int of coins, among which were sev
2ral pennies of the time of Alfred
uid Edward divided in this way.
Similarly divided pence of the time
of Edward the Confessor have been
found, and in speaking, of the dis
covery, In of a number of these
curious bair-p'-nce of the time of
William the Con lueror, and unques
tioned authority states tlrat they
vvero probably issued from the mints
in that form, since the whole coi'ec
tion had evidently been in circula
tion. In the British Mu eum n Lou
don are specimens of these divided
coins issued under varr.us monarch;
from Allred to Henry III., with the
latter of whom the custo'ii ceased
An eminent a hxolo'ist accounts for
the divided c :ns by saying that thi
doubtlesss arose from the scarcity of
small cham.", which w.:s in pirt
reraedn d und'T the rei-n of Edani
L by the co.aage of half-pence ami
farthings.
Mails Thro ih Fueiunst'u Tubi.
The tubes are laid under ground
between the branch oto l'ces and
the main orlice; tin y are of bra-s,
covered with various materials t)
protect them in the ground, and in
laying them care is taken to avoid
sharp corners and curves. At the
starting point machinery is placed,
by which air is compressed and kept
stored under a number of pounds
pressure. The mail matter is put
into leather boxes, which lit the in
terior of the tuties; these are placed
in the receiving tu'es. which are
closed with heavy floors. The com
pressed air is then turned into the re
ceiving tube. It can expand in only
one direction, that is, in the direc
tion of the tube, and in expanding it
drives the leather box with Its ccu
tents before it until at the main otlice
the box is discharged into the receiv
ing tube, and the liberated air fol
lows it with a slight explosion. The
system Is in use in many newspaper
offices and between telegraph oillces
The shorter the d stance to lie
traversed the less pressure need be ap
plied to the air. Brass is ued as the
material of the tubes because it is
self-luoricatlng and becomes aud re
mains smooth easily, and therefore
offers the least resistance to the pas
sage of the boxes.
Tl Anatomj or th. Oyat.r.
A dam is considered as an emblem
ot stupidity and callousness. But
you will make a great mistake if you
put the oyster in the same category
as when you c'jiss a Chinaman and a
Japanese together. The oyster Is so
strong that no human Angers can
open the doors of his house if he
wishes to keep them shut. Liver and
digestive organs he has, as sensitive
as ours; respiratory organs as com
plicated as the human lungs; ma
chinery for getting a water supply
and for preventing anoverbow, and a
wonderful mechanism for trapping
his food. And he has a heart w hose
pulsations may be seen after bis house
bas been torn from him.
Knowing this, it is easy to com
prehend how cultivation and care
may net only improve it in looks, but
also cause the quality of its meat to
surpass that of the unci.tivated oys
ter, as much as grain-fc! poultry sur
passes the product of the barnyard.
When your host offers you oysters
that are plump, round, thick, deep,
liffht-colored. and frincrpd niilfj. thlV
to the very edge, then you may be I
jure that they have not only lived
with few disturbances, but under
high state of cultivation.
A Bad T.levrmm.
A young wife whs lost her husband
by death telegraphed the sad tidings
to ber father in these succlnt words:
"Dear John died this morarng at 10.
Ltiss fully covered by Insurance."
South ro iv.
Una Way of Doing It
He That friend of yours is rery
familiar. He slapped ma on the back
and called ma "oldniaa." Sbe So
Be told me. He said be bad for
rotten your nams. Life.
LITTLE BUT USEFUL.
Th Htr.ui Bingham, Made for Mln.loaatx
Work Amonc the GUbert Island.
The smallest missionary vessel
e float recently left San Francisco for
the Gilbert Islands. She is 50 feet
long, J4 feet wide, and 6 feet deep,
is a two-masted schooner, was buut
THE BIKAX BIXOBAM
at San Frajicisco, and her name 1j
the Hiram Bingham. She was paid
for, however, by the American Board
of Foreign Missions, of Boston, and
ts registered in that city. Rev. J.
Walkup, who commands her, Is a cap
tain as well as a missionary, who has
passed twelve years of his lifeamoog
the Gi.bcrt Islands. Internally the
vessel Is all cabin, as the crew Is
composed entirely of the missionaries
w o Intend to work among the Isl
ands, and the vessel is designed for a
sort of tender to the big m ssionary
br g Morning Star. It is built, tuere
fore, to run in and out among all the
channels and harbors where the large
vessels cannot go, and an odd feature
about it Is a 10-horse-power gasoline
engine aud attached screw, so the
vessel can navigate the narrow chan
nels by steam In a calm.
OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA.
It I. Built or Adolw and Standi In Santa
Fr. New Mexico.
Down In old 'Santa Fe, the capital
of New Mexico, the oldest seat of
civil and religious government on
American soil, there exist many re-
toe oldest noL iir AsiLniCA.
mains of buildings erected by the old
Spanish conquero s of the country.
One of lhee, the Adobe Palace, has
been used as the "executive" man
sion since the first Governor and Cap
tain General, Juan de Otermin, oc
cupied it in lG'iO; while the cathe
dial, built in 1701, is now rapidly
cmmbllng away, and will soobe re
p a".ed by a m nlern stone budding.
Ar other interesting eccb lastl -al
edillc-; is the Church of tan Miguel,
erected in the sixteenth century, but
destroyed during the Pueblo revolu
tion of 1580, and rebuilt in 1710.
Close to this structure stands a houe
generally recognized as the "oldest in
the United States." It was built be
fore the Spanish conquest, and It Is
traditionilly reported that Corouado
lodged in it in 1540.
CAPTURED A CATARACT.
Capitalist. Will Soon Bun Fat Niagara
to Hard Work.
For more than flftyyears the dream
of engineers has been to "harness
Niagara." Well, the dream has come
true. Niagara is in harness.
To be sure, the trace-chains havt
trot yet be n hooked to the whlflCe
trces of industry, but the collar and
harness, the bridle and bit, are in
poa.tion and ready for the strain
Mien it shall come.
The greatest cataract of the world
has been subdued, says a Buffalo cor
respondent of the New Y'ork Press,
and If, in knowledge of its captivity,
its roar is more sullen than of yore
when It existed only as an insur
mountable obstacle to navigation and
a wonder for slghtseeis to grow
solemn over, the smiles on the faces
of capitalists, the new jingle In the
pockets of residents of the village of
Niagara Falls, and the complacent
prophecies of the Buffalonian that
ten years hence "Chicago will not be
lu it, sir; no, sir, not on your life,"
are atonements.
It is estimated that the total power
of the great waterfall is equal to that
of 15,000,000 horses. The present
scheme will only utilize less than
1-3 00th of that vast wasting force,
but it may be stretched in the future
to as great a length as may be made
usefuL
The effect of this great enterprise
may not be as great as the sanguine
remark of the Buffalo man who has
been quoted would imply, but it will
be very great
Bat a plan has been devised where
by the power will be electrically
transmitted to Buffalo with compara
tively small loss, so that the city will
undoubtedly come in for many of tbe
pudding's plums.
Tbe first attempt to utilize tbt
water power of Niagara Falls was
made by Horace A. Dey, who in 1S50
built the old hydraulic caual ruunlng
from above tbe rapids to what are
now known us Shoelkopfs mills, on
the brink of the cataract This canal
llseharges its water into wheeipits
only sixty feet deep, which In turn
riis.'harge at a point mors than 100
feet above the level of the river be
low tbe falls, so that more than
three-quarters of the possible force is
wasted. The old hydraulic canal gives
in all only about 8,000 available horse
powder.
Unintentionally Yomny.
The making of Jokes bas come to
be a recognized trade, but it is still
true that the funniest things are
those that are said unintentionally,
especially; 8aea. -rhj Xeel H W
s4 fhr?
my - ' i ai
ml slon to be eloquent. The Tvr
Y'ork Tribune brings together a few
specimens of that peculiar form of
ridiculous speech knows as anti-climax.
It prevails in India -imonf all
classes, but is especially resortd to by
natives who have occasion to petition
Europeans for favors. Thus such a
nan will say:
"Will the Presence, whoe reputa
tion for justice Is known from the
East to the West and whose counte
nance spreads joy among His inferi
ors, who are as the sands ot the sea
shore, in number, graciously deign to
take but an instant's notice ot him
who bas the delicious honor to naui
himself one of the most unworthy
among the servants of the Protector
of the Poor; and will the favorite
Son of the Lord of the Universe mag
nanimously overlook my amazing pre
sumption in asking him for the pay
ment of a bill ot two annas for hen
eed?" The same thing is not unknown in
the United Mates. A Florida police
justice was trying to Impress upon a
prisoner who was to testify in his
own behalf the solemn nature of an
! oath. Assuming the most pompous
Kuie he thus addresed him:
"Prisoner at the bar! In taking
this s-o!euiu oath to tell the truth
and nothing but the truth, take care
. that you do not allow yourself to ba
tempted to commit a willful perjury.
' Kemember that the eye of an all-seeing
Providence and the village coo-
! vtable are upon you."
i Another judge, in a rough and
ready but ambitious frontier town,
bad occasion, or thought he had, to
comment severely upon the heinous
crime of horse-stealing, aud thua-
. dered forth:
I "For century after century tha
' dread command, 'Thou shalt not
steal,' bas rolied along the ages. It
Is, moreover, a standing rule of this
' court, if not yet a by-law of our pro
' gressive and soon-to-bo-incorporated
1 city!"
I Ludicrous deliverances of a similar
. sort are common ia advertisements,
' especially in those of a personal nat
ure. Here is one that appeared not
'on? ago in a 2ew Y'ork paper;
; "Willie, return to your detracted
wife and frantic children! L'o you
want to hear of your old mother's sul
c.deV Yu will if you do not let us
know where you are. Anyway, send
back your lather's colored meer
schaum." Motto on a Clock.
The following account of the ori
gin of a well-known motto for a time
piece, whether true or faL--e, Is worth
recording. Some years ago a new
clock was made to be placed In the
Temple Hall. When tlnlsbed, the
clokmakcr was dtsi ed to wait on
t';e Benchers of the Temple, who
would think of a suitable motto to
be r ut under the clock. He applied
several times, but without getting
the desired Information, as they had
Dot determine! on the Inscription
Continuing to importune them, he at
last came when the old Benchers were
met in the Temp.e Hall, and had just
sat cown to dinner.
The workman again requested to
be informed of the motto; one of the
Benchers, who thought the applica
tion ill-timed, and who was fonder of
eatitiR and drinking than inventing
original mottoes, testily replied: "Go
about your business." The mechanic,
taking this for an answer to his ques
tion, went home and inserted at the
bottom of the clock, "Go about your
business, and plaoed it on the Temple
Hall, to the g-eat surprise of the
Benchers, who, uioa considering the
circumstance, agreed that accident
had produced a better motto than
they could think of, and ever siuco
the Temple clock has continued to
remind the lawyers and the public to
go about their business. -The Million.
lSetray.J by an tcho.
Ferhaps the most interesting echo,
partly because of Its history, is that
of the Cathedra! of Girgentl, in Sicily,
where the slightest whispor Is borne
with perfect distinctness from the
great western door to the cornice be
hind the high altar. The fact that
a faint whisper could be thus carried
250 feet was discovered aucideutally
by a man who overheard tbe confes
sion of a fair sinner, tbe confessional
being just at tbe most unfortunate
place. The secret was kept jealously
guarded by the dis overer and a few
t intimate friends to whom hecon3ded
. it, while escapades of the most pri
j vate nature became public property
, in the most mysterious way. Finally
one listener had his curiosity more
; than satiated b heaiing bis wife's
confession to the priest, and raised
. such a row that the secret became
: known, and the locution of the con
I fesstonal was changed to a more se
! care part of the edifice.
IA HUtorlau'. H.ipmato.
Mrs. J. Iw Green, the wife of the
English historian, aided him in his
researches and wrote at his dictation
sometimes as mauy as eleven hours a
day. This brought on writer's cramp,
but instead of laying down ber pen
Mrs. Green taught herself to writo
with ber left hand. Besides assist
ing in the production or the "Short
i History," she has written some on nor
' own account the "Life of Henry
IL," "English Town Life in the Mid
dle Ages," and "Iowa Life In the
Fifteenth CenCury," all tennea with
tbe lefi band. Of course this was
before the days of tbe typewriter.
Mutlcal Therapeutic..
A guild bas been formed In London
for tbe purnose of propagating and
j putting into practice its idea that
' music, has a greac mission before it in
' the curing of certain diseases. The
system Is being Introduced into
French hospitals, under the name of
"Musico Therapeutios." According
to a Dr. Bla kmann, who is the lead
ing spirit in the new departure,
violins have the highest therapeutic
'value, the ha j, coming next while
tenors should sing to female patients,
and sopranos to males. It is sug
gested that Dr. Blackmann should
pursue tbe natural development of
this new school of tbe healing art and
classify the composers, as a natient
i needing the "exhibition" ot Haydn
might be seriously affected by a
course of Wagner.
A Fctcish woman in Minnesota
oas given b rtb to six children at one
time. Tbe father hopes tbat this
will jrinnjeb sbe family.
LAUGH AND GROW FAT.
A HEALTH V TONIC FOR
VALIDS OT ALL KINDS.
IN-
Hnmoron. Anecdote. Cleaned from Ten
on. Sonreee Something to Read Which
tl 111 Make A body Sleep Well Better
Than Medlelae Wben Taken Beiore Ke-SUins-
An Old Sorap-Book.
"What was that book you were
reading just now, Johnny? It was
Jareled the Marou s of Queensbcrry's
Rules." "Oh er that?" Johnny
replied. '-That was nothln but an
old scrap-book." Wa-hington Star
The March or Intellect.
Father (rebutlngly) When I was
a little boy 1 never thought of ask.ng
such Questions. Tommy (the young
est) Ah, but papa, when you was a
little boy I wasn't born! Funny
Folks.
Twinkle rt. Trine-
It is confidently asserted tbat, as
far as patrician instrumentalists are
concerned, the banjo Is well-nigh
"played out" while the mandolin is
"coming on with a rush."
f ashion decree tbat we mutt glee op
handiia'
(Excu. i tbe rhrme) tbe ban'o for fL.
mandolin '
Fililir' a. tr.Lilrnt ass flaming candle
Ivan,1
Bemerk the played-out banjo to tbe
mando'lne.
London Judy.
Too Expensive.
Pabton (calling on his cousin from
the country) Why don't you go out
and see the town? Cousin Go oai!
Do you knonr I am paying $2 a dy
for this room, aud you bet I want to
get my money's worth. Once a
Week.
A Settler.
Mr. Slowpay Mrs. Hash, will you
let me have a strainer? The coffee
grains don't seem to settle. Mrs.
Ha h With pleasure. And I ho e
It will not only cau e tho coffee to
settle but you, too. Cloak Journal
Beginning Toung.
Resident Think of opening an
office in this neighborhood, eh?
Seems to me you are rather young foi
a family physician. Young Doctor
Y-e-s, but er 1 shall only doctor
children at first New Y'ork Weekly.
The Minister". Club.
Small Son Mamma, there's a boy's
club being formed; can I Join?
Mamma (horrified) Indeed you
shan't. Small Son I'm glad of that
the minister is gettin' it up. Good
News.
A Dooble-nistllled Fake.
Colonel Taylor (to Nonscruple)
Wnat Is all Mils talk about a whisky
trust?
Nonscruple Not a word of truth
In it I've tried a dozen places.
Jud;e.
A Blranta Token.
Clara Why, what a large pillow!
New. isn't it? Maud Yes. You
know Charlie Gouger, Harvard's half
back? Well, be bad bis hair cut - off.
stuffed that pillow with it ana gave
it to me. Puck.
111. Part Waa.
"Don't you think you are overdoing
this matter of delay?" said the cred
itor. "Not at all," leclied the debtor,
"but 1 am satisfied that your part of
the transaction is decidedly over
duu." Washington Star.
Mweeta to the Sweet.
Mother (to her child, who bas just
bad so.xe sweets eivea ber by a fellow-passenger)
What do you say to
the gentleman, Mabel! Mabel
Have you got any more, please?
Punch.
A Pnule.
- Little Dick There was a panic in
the theater I went to las' n gbt Lit
tle Johnny AVofs aranic? Lttle
Dick W'y, everyboly gets scarce
'cept you. Good News.
At Slmmoneoa'a.
First Clerk There's a new baby at
Simmonson's. ie.ood Cleric So?
Type-writer or book-keeper? In
dlauapolls Journal.
Bl. Quotation.
"ThaUs an other story," ns the
builder said when ordered to run the
walls up higher. Troy Press.
! The sbacjw of a misfortune elll
generally frighten us more tban tbe
disaster itself.
Undertake tc prove tbat there is
no bell and every mean man will
throw up bis bat
I They know in Heaven bow much
religion the ricn have by tbe way
they treat tbe poor folks.
Tbe first cast-frcn plow waa made, br
Newbold in iW. -
1
I
tty proxy. .
Morrison E-sex I'm going to les I
sis wife know of his actions with the ;
jiris. Franklin Fumiss Are you j
ro n to tell her? Morrison Essex
No; I'm going to tell my wife. Puck, i
I tame Length of Time.
Harry Now, Jack, stand up and
tell our guests what you know it
won't take vou very long. Jack
I I'll tflll them wht we both know-
it won't take me any longer. Ex.
Interfering with Bnalneu.
Tenderfoot Don't y. u see that
man killing all thoso people? Why
don t you stoa him?
; Alkali Jim Stop him! Me! Well,
I guess not, pare! ner. Why, d n
, It, man, I'm the coroner! Llfo.
Don't Agree.
The wolf and the lamb lie down to
gether; but it is a ways the wolf that
makes tbe proposit'on. and he is lia
ble to get hungry the moment he feels
wicked. New Orleans Iicayune.
Ht-r Kxcute.
He So vou have been dnncin; w:th
tbat c:!d Fla hpot while I've been to
zet your ice? She Well, dear, I
thought I would net wara.ed up 60
to enoy the ice Judy.
Had Seen That.
"I suppose you are too young to
have ever seen a slave auctioned from
the block?" "Yep. I once 6aw a
man knocked down for a song,
though." Indianapolis Journal.
Like Woman. Work.
"Tostcr (:n cheap restaurant) The
steak they have here rem nds me of
a woman's work. Wlllare Why so?
Uu.'t.r It is never dona Truth.
Personal Experience Kecesnary.
"Naw,"said Patrolman McAnarest
"a mon kin niver tell what he'll do
in a pinch until he gets pinched him
wit." Puck. -
Overwork.
Rooney Say, Pat, ye're a bit of a
i irhotard; kin ye tell me who it was
ordered the sun to sbtand stili?
Noonan I dunno. Some son of a
i:n of a contractor who wanted to
git a big day's work out of the labor-
in' man, ye kin bet. Puck.
A Queer r el ow.
"Old man Suburb Is a queer" fel
low. "Indeed be is; he was a su
pervisor from a country town once
and voted against saddling all the
taxes on tiie city." Buffalo Express.
A Browning Primer.
There is a Browning primer now.
It is safe to say that tbe primer Is as
far as some Browning devotees w.ll
ever get with profit or undei standing.
Rochester Cbronlcle.
Sorry for Him.
"They say Miss Richly is 28 and
h s had twenty-eight proposals. "
"Yes I told Brother John that and
he replied: 'Heaven b lp the twenty
ilnth man:'" Once Week-
Brand or Clgaro.
Figgs Take a cgar old man; this
brand is reserved for mv friends.
Diggs after inspecting the wee li I
bore your enemies died prepared!
Once a Weik
A Little Peal.
The coal man drew a band that
spoiled the iceman's little game; the
modest plum ersiwthem both and
got tbore just the same. Buffalo
Exprees.
Alannlne. if True.
Justice How do you explain you
oe ng found inside Colonel Ginger's
thicken coop last night?
Leftover Jackson De . truft Is,
edge. I made all ma 'rangements
ter git up 'arly in the mohnn', and
I waated ter sleep whab I cud beab
ie roosters crow. Pu -k.
Be Might Be.
"It's a good thing we can't sen our
selves as others see us" saldMawson.
That's sV said Withcrup, com pa.
centiy. "How con eited I'd be it we
could: Harper's Ba ar.
In section.
"Ninety-Five Say, Blanks, bav
you read 'Romeo and Juliet?' Ninety
Six Iv'e read i.oxeo and I Intend
taking up Juliet boon. Princeton
Tiger.
We do not have to travel far to find
jut that all hogs do not wear brist.es.
Thkbe are too many people who
aJ
ire only pious when things go right
I Gjd can say things to the poor
' ihat be cannot even hint at to the
ricb.
I A DeroTr of petrified lobsters,
slams and turtles has b en discoveitd
In Ar.iona. Now, if the collection
Included petrified sandwiches, Arizona
i might be depended upon to fit out a
i railroad restaurant with everything
. needed-
NEWS IX B2IEF.
There are 235 varieties of dyna
mos. There are only two lawyers in Ice
land. An invalid's chair
Is electr'cally
propeded
Wnaleback boats are
electricity.
lighted by
Asphalt nawments were first
laid
in Paris lu 1354.
Tbe best Insect destroyer is bot
alum water.
ne-flfth of the coal mined is lost
la cuiin and refuse.
Tbe longevity of trees is much in
fluenced by climate.
T. e notation system ot writing
music was invested In 1070.
The flesh of the oyster contalas
abjut nine: per ceat of water.
During tbe years taat Hmry VHI.
reigned 72.000 tolevej were canged.
A Sedalia (Mo.) p.eacher adver
tises "good music and thort nermous.''
There are ruiiy 100,000 species
of insects known to the entomologists.
Astronomers clalnn that tbeie are
17,600,000 coutets in the solar system.
A body weighing 10.0CO pounds at
tbe q-:ator would weigh 10,031 pennds
lu Loudon.
Tbe swards or Paxascas were
wo:ld-lam' us Dvo hundred years before
the Cbnsiiau Era.
Aluminum pencils are being man
ufactur, a n German fjr use as substi
tutes for .Ute prne is.
To make ice by artificial means re
quires one ton if cod to produce from
live to ten tons of ice.
A Coz"B bee trees in New Madrid,
Mo, were iate'y tapiwd, and yielded
600 pounds of wild honey.
For the destruction or microbes
cinuam.iD Is sail to cm as effective, it
not bS quIck, us corrosive sublimate.
A large sw;ng mach'ne, weighing
tbree an i one-fourth iods. Is in nse lu
Leeds, England. It sews cotton belt
ing. Th avarae weight of the Chinese
b-aliissti. to be beivier than tbe
avengn weight o the brain in any oti
er race.
Hrd coal loses eight per cent in
bulk per a"nim when exposed 13 the
weather. S.ft, coal loses twelve per
ctnt
Considerable attention is now
be lug paid to the chemisiry of the pig
ments of infects, especially of butter
flie. Sixty miles an bour Is a common
speed, an 1 a rte of forty or fifty unles
Is attained d uly oa almost every rail
way in the country.
Tue newly di-cuvered frm of car
bon a ff era in several . f ltd protertits
frou. graphic, and bas been called iro
vUlonallv itn itite.
Tbe el'Cnc capstan is now larzely
n?e1 on docks and in railway and other
yards where ready power is required lo
move carj, in place ot switcuing en
gines. Over twenty years ago Meldola ob
seived tnat tbe y-ll.iw p gawnt of tbe
sulphur yellow butterfly was soluble in
water, and showed tbat its aqueous
solution had au acid reaction.
Experiments lave shown tbat a
pumpsln will lirt, to and one-half tons,
provnii-d t'.e wi:ht t placed so as to
interfere with tbe growth aud develop
ment of the vege a' Id.
The teroporature of the Mel'terra
iiean at 2u0 fathoms is a o ;t fifty-six
degrees, aud uo change is found In
golrg to the bottom which in places
reaches a depth of 1500 f .tboms.
M Cbappuis's proposed electric
railway through th Simploa Pa-a Is
estimited to cot 3,O00,OUO, and It
wou d ereatly rot'ice tbo n:stance be
tween Italy and N rthern Europe.
- Tbe cost of the observatory which
is now being built on tbe toj of Mont
Blanc, Switzerland, Is .SM railed at SoO,
000. Part of the buiidiog Is to be
made available for guides and touritti
It is claimed th.t over $d0,0OO,0J0
bas been luvrsted In the phosphate Las
iness if the South, and thtt Ih-) busi
ness has been overdon?, at least tempo
rarily. There are now 670 Osages and
tliev i ave to their creii' in th- United
States Treasury about $10,000.0' 0, own
1,500.100 acre - ot ex eueot liu.i aud do
not. owe a cent. Their Ilo me per
Capita is Qfiy-five dollars j.er qu rter.
At Cherbourg France, an electric
al came is ;n successful operation. It
will run for twelve hours at the rate ot
nearly eight snots an hjur.
Genuine volcanic dust has been
found in Kansas and tbe Indian Terri
tory, i" I 'ere is a dei osit near Galena,
in the T nltery, which la taid to be
tuciLy feet ii) thickness.
A fosIl elephant bas been found
ten kilometres from tirloude, In Fiance,
on tl.e slop of an old volcano, tne fen
eze. It is tbe .keleton of an elephus
meridional)", and :s nearly entire.
Tbe 1 dest mettied of decorating
metals nihkes tbe working out of most
beiutiful and ar'.ist C designs possiMe.
The means oy which this ia affected
are ti e etching a-d oxidation of tbe
metal.
A level bead Is i-ossessed by a cer
tain young man id Wlnun a.', Ind. He
lovtd two xirls equally well, and both
of them rd d l.iai. He set them to
cooki ft a dinner, each In torn, in bis
presence, r.e married the one who.e
dinner be preferred.
There bas beii plowed np In An
drew C-unty, Mls-ourl, an ancient
Roman swor.1. It in reported, which is
be.ieved to b ve belonged 10 some men
lr of De Soto's exied ton, whn were
ext lo""r in that pirt ot tbe country lu
the middle of the Sixteenth Ce .tu.y.
I'erfoi mances at theatre of aaciect
Greece sometimes lifted twrlve hours.
S-von o'clock in tbe rr.ori.ing was the
t me for tue raising ot the curtain, so to
speak.
A pistol ball was recently re
moved from the right thigh ot a rr an
wtiici bat been there since 1S6..
The hi.ll, It Is said, had sravl ated
about a foot und a half thn.upb the
flash in tne last tweutv-nine years.
A C"uple of pheasants j lined after
tbe manner ot the Siamese twins, were
snot by a hunter in BeUefi-nie, Orego .
The connecting ligament was r-alf ad
inob thick, end united them just In
rnt ot the wings.