The Fulton County news. (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, November 30, 1899, Image 3
10 p ' 'ISi BREAKING THE WISHDONE. H i1 it'll V&pN vVfW vXkV' t? ) When to Loio the XVl and "When to 7 'in la rt jj. . . o- pfyOOOOOOOOOOOOGOCO a'oful Thankssfivina S 0 Do 'pi. t q ''"(Dy Moriori Harlar.d. ft ie r.. O in: OC00000300000000000 ' fr-"3HE faot was we hail nsvor spent "a Tnanksgiv. iug" iu the country. .And in town the -Pilgrims' holy day has de geueroted into an 'Arry aud 'Arriet "blowout." J. It wan deoided in 10':tuncil to hie us in a body to a """box among the lulls, where jilt fejoyed 'our idyllio summers, 111 ' keep the hoary old festa as ,)M'ro-RaphaeIito aquarelles tell 1 '! tild bo observed, ""'tell two days before the im 11111 Thursday. Allthebotterl It ! tlfve been all tho best had tho tue d off until we were actually e'b bd could read "Snow-Bound" ie 'Sag logs answering roar for md "grond old harper" Biniting l" !'feing the oaks and hickories tlieve. "iIHfk tha 9 o'clock train from tho '"'ywas Crowded, mainly with iid oondition.of men. Each ITel jas presumably going to tho ''""stead gray, yellow or white, "''rjr the invariable red barn """tnkBglving." Some chewed i eel to toue down thoir breaths !' . 'forous prejudices of tho old home, others inhaled bad ' "" the "smoker," and brought 0B8'&cense into our car. At least 8Ua:fe munched peanuts mid or.'i floor with the shells. Oue ,utl,lko4 loudly and laughed "";lly. A red-hot stove at each no"ie eat brewed the reek of ' . tobaoco, orange peel and "'knmitfi infn n iinianiinA " ''"'in aooommodation traiu, halt- iry "turn-out" to set down ,ou'''iauo and poetry to maintain nurkonsof the day. At the end tooth mile we came to a dead 9 T'i A coal train had been 8 . jnd must be cleared away be luitij, OUi yje were stranded i ""tot centre of an, uncomely, ex lie '"lEeldt covered with sodden lt eriss-orossed by blaokish ow'rfces, Now a farmstead was ue H ovet a mile on all sides of '."""dozen mean hnts knotted lr w,1 of settlement about some r Br,Jaliug sheds, and twenty dis irca;floafers lounged from them 8 'Tthe'wreok and our train, root ij.jj ooutntiori 0f men a(. c'ht speedily with these, and ye"fratorfamilias inado divers jourions in various direo ' je.,esfc of a draught of milk bs ' "'Voad for his hungry ob.il " ..treasonably eleau spot where tish ii!iaa mi8"t r're for awhile giuwiiiB Btriio oi longues ie di ir, ....... """'Lj-iJ 41.- 1 1 J jdincr uuouiineu rrniu, u Pd if0 v'l1ont tbat wouutaiu isn r"y ''t!utuing were to 8 t to 'JflloWBU'P andfor money. jld, more or less tipsily, of j jiwore eolebrating, drinking vou f;vry imaginable form of " .t i "ome tllat, until tnat ' .P'Jrjwere quite unimagin- j l'" Emilias and her terrified fun uveruge Atoeriuaa s I a holiday is license, and 1L innrMnBAfl anil m-Avnilml 1 off- dr"K8ed by. tow.t1,Altca at 10-30- At 3 tlle .1 ,l,1e, ftU(1 tuo celobrautsof ly inti thoir seats, the one Hi. St. lot J' e litt Jr. C Jre Sir A idruw amp nglisl n Htf the ! t wli the broad and teemintr s fyttd otlered their brown king with richness, to the to) orauberries had bled 'illion; pumpkin pies iu3diu;s bad tur eited tha nubds of sensible neonla Inhinf nl; home and feasted l!7 8:no9 our early break. Oil tOT ts of i, a: m ulu- cat an just one water cracker wire l.imo with louor sit bod iu body by foul air and o-u language, by &u loft of Hpirit and hope re- are ' lity. i ,hur ' stiuK hey ' cnoh mile left behind us. ax told stories to the con sents of the sleigh drive hure from the station, the thi and fun awaitiutr us at ,v to 'f hd managed to get off a e ti'U1 ill der I tho tin 1 ;adiD byw it ther id to te Iiur ion b', are b tooei)' tila ar curetukiuor cardenev wo p4ki ordering him to send to an?" 1,"" w came and to keep Alighted at the shabby nearest our idyllio cot $h was in waiting; not je was in sight, audtho fcked. A bitter wind down the valley, and ifctio sun was hardly a 4 hills. Paterfamilias two-year-old baby and u prooessiou "aorcs. ion ana stiffening snow. we projected for our I was a wilo long. We the knees with snow lusted to f aiutness when gardener's lodge at tho f grounds. fast; no answer was S vouchsafed to our knocking; no faint blue reek arose from chimney. The children had behaved heroically up to this inHlant. When thoir father an nounced darkly that tho villains had never got his disputch nud had taken theniselreii off upon a Thanksgiving spree of their own baby began to sob, and silent tears glazed the purpled cheeks of the eldest girls. "This is the tassel upon the cap of the climax!" said thoir mother iu deadly calmness. "We will go to tho house and break our way in. Since starve we must, we will starve in our beds, undor plenty of blankets." ' Sho took a child by ' each hand, paterfamilias reBhoulderod the weep ing baby, and we pulled our feet out of the congealing snow. A plantation of evergreens hid tho turn iu the path at which we had our lirst glimpse of tne cottage. A weak cry from the children, an astonished snort from paterfamilias, u devout ejaculation from the mother, broke into the gusty air. For royal banners of smoke, tinted by the glowing west, itr earned from every chimney, each window was stained by scarlet fire-gleams from within; Frank, our faithful watchdog, bounded from the poreh with a bay of weloome, and at tho joyous yelp the front door was iluug wide. Our telegram had arrived in good season; the sleigh had gono to meet us by the road, and, being a little behind time, had missed us, who came across lots. While our trusty retainers made breathless explanations the odor of roast turkey was borne to us upon tho Hood of warm air pouring through hall and doorway. Dinner would be ou table by the time we could get our selves into dry clothes. Never did another dinner taste so good; never was wood tire more jolly than that in which the children roasted chestnuts, and beside which pater- DESIKE lo warn bono with you is one of whom you should bewaro. She is vory tantalizing, chic, clever, and, oh, so awfully sorry you didn't get yonrwishl Tho young widow is a mind reader and knows just what your thoughts are while you are holding the bone and looking down into her eyes. If you have to look up into a widow's eyes, there may be some hope for you, but wheu she looks up aud you look down she can read every one of your thoughts. By the way, there is only one, only has been oue, only can be one, thought passing through a man's mind when he is breaking a wishbone with a charming ysung widow possession! She knows it as plainly as though written indelibly upon your forehead. That is her particular forte. And when you break the bone and find yourself possessed of the short end bIio will look up into your eyes with a look that will cause your poor buck hair to crimp and say, with that pityiug tone of voice nevor so well modulated as by a widow: "I am so sorry you lost!" No matter what the after result of a good dinner may bring forth, yon can not help but hie yourself away to some quiet resort obscure from pry ing and meddling eyes and bury your disappointment in books or blues. But when you break a wishbone with a sweet youuggirl it is a very different thing. Sweet young girl's hearts were made to be broken like tho wishbone. You secure a deal of paradise whilo breaking bones with a sweet young girl, whereas yon got generally worm wood and gall when yon break bones with a fair widow. You throw all your art into tho act of breaking a bone with a young girl, but wheu you break a bone with a fair vidow you throw "WE WEEK WET VV TO TIIE KNEES WITH BNOW WAl'EK AND EXHAUSTED CO TAINTNESS WHEN WE UEAOHED THE GARDENER'S LODGE. " fami!ias smoked the oigar of content, and muterfamilias dreuinod and moral ized. To the homo nook, "curtained and closed and warm," came the shout of the wind-god, a very pagean of re joicing for mishaps overpast and for the abuudaub compensations that orowned the outgoing of our one eventful Thanksgiving Day. New York World. Funny Storlei a! Early Thmikiftlvlnn. "r. Many funny stories are told of the early Thanksgiving days, such as the town of Colchester calmly ignoring the Qovernor'a appoiuted day and observ ing its own festival a week later, in order to allow time for the arrival, by sloop from New York, of a hogshead of molasses for pies. Another is re counted of a farmer losing hit cask of Thanksgiving molasies out of his cart as he reached tho top of a steep hill and of its rolling swiftly down till split iu twain by its fall. His helpless dis comfiture and his wife's acidity of tem per and diet uro comically told, A Novel Idua. The hostess of a last-year's Thanks giving dinner secured enough yellow gourds to put oue at each of the dozon covers in simulutiou of the Thanks giving pumpkin. Each of these gourdB held a tiny, growing forn iu its little clay pot, tho oolor effect around tho table being extremely good. Vecorutlan Vur Ilia Veuat. ' the deooratinus of the Thanksgiving dinner-table should be seasonable. The fruits aud flowers that beloug to tho late autumn the ones .that should graoo tho Nomber board. Chrysanthemums are paincuiary np. propriate, and their decoratie effuot is excellent. yonr heart in against her art, and she beats you nine times out of ten. The best place to break a bone with a fair widow is in tho oorner of a snug sittiug room, with tho lights turned low. A man's heart tire glows tnoro vividly upon his cheeks then; also it is more fun for the widow. She quite prefers earnestness of purpose and is ever ready for a tilt of hearts against arts. You might win a prize iu the lottery of life if you would break a bone with a fair young girl with your heart as fixed upon the one purpose possessiou as it was with the widow. Did you ever break a bone with a staid old aunt whose fortune you hoped to possess? If you lose your wish, "I am so ho liny Ton lost. your fortune is inude, ior she'll put you down as a real nice nephew with out sordid fancies, but if you win she'll pioroe you with a look aud say: "I expeoted you wanted me to hur ry up aud die." Always make it a point to lose your wish when breaking a bone with an expectant aunt who has a fortune. WADING LAVA ON STILTS. A Thrllllnf Rtory From Ilawatl by Way of tli Old Country. A. R. Watson has just had one ot (he most thrilling experiences that ever befell a mountaineer. He as cended the Mauna Loa volcano, in the Hawaiian Islands, while it was in a state of furious eruption. The party numbered five, with guides, paok mules and a week's supply of provi sions, By evening of tho first day about a third of the hazardous climb had beeu achieved and the men camped iu a erove of palms and forns. At noon ou the succeeding dny all the members of the party, with tho exoeption of Mr. Watson, concluded to examine the north cone of tho prater, whilo Mr. Watson, tilled with the idea that the southern cone was tho most interesting, separated from his companions aud guides aud moved in that direction. After a weary and dangerous climb he arrived at a pro montory of rock and earth. Clone up on tho fur side of this point a great river of lava was bounding iu a straight line 'down the laouutnin, while about 800 feet above, on tho slope of the hill, tho cratjr, like tho mouth of some infernal monster, was pouring forth melted stone. Mr. Watson sat for a considerable time, probably a roupto of hours, gaz ing upon tho vast estuary of rolling, Mowing, bursting tire rushing down the side of tho mountaiu. Home thou sand or rnoro feet below this stream entered a thicket of trees which, Mr. Wateon observed through his glasses, seemod to have wonderful power of resisting the attack of the tinmen. Toward night ho arose from his seat below the rocks to go over the summit, down the hill and walk out between the lava on the side which he was to cross. Ho thought Hint his eyes bad been resting too longou run ning lava and that he could see such a stream iu whichever quarter he might look; so he went forward. lint he had not. . beeu mistaken. Whilo he had been sitting with his back to the direction from which he had come and in which he must go, with his eyas on the flowing stream, enchanted with its marvels, there had broken from the lower edge of tho crater, and some feet to tho north of the ono he was watching, a second flow. He started on down und had proceeded several hundred feet, when, to his horror and amazement, he dis covered that the new stream of lava ran directly into the earlier stream. The streams joiued, and his retreat hud been cut off. He was hemmed in by running rivers of lire. As ho meditated on the best means of escape, his eyo fell upon the singu lar forest at the bottom of the incliue, and he thought of the heat defying properties of that wood. If he could only turn the bunch which grew above him into sorvice. Aht he had it Btilts! Ho had been an expert ou stilts when a boy, and felt certain his skill bad uot forsaken him. Drawing a Btout-bladed knife from his pocket, he began hewing at tho base of oue of the smallest trees. The wood was of the species known as iron wood. When the blade grew dull he whetted it on the rocks. All through tho night ho worked, while the terrible furnace belched above. . By daylight he had the stilts made, and, mounting them, started off to the edge of the flow. The wood smould ered, but did not blaze, as he waded through the lava. The heat was frightful, blistering his face aud hands. As he arrived at the opposito edge of the river of fire ono charred stilt broke off, but eager hands .grasped him and lifted the swooning man onto oue of the mules, iu which manner ho was taken to a rancher's house. Mr. Watson is at present re ceiving medical attention, but is milk ing rapid progress. London Daily Mail. A Clly Truvelluir Library. Colonel It. Boss Appleton, a wealthy New York manufacturer, is one of the leaders of the Brooklyn Publio Li brary Association. He says of it: "Our idea is rather novel; almost tho opposite of that which underlies other great libraries. They want a magnificent buildiug and a large num ber of valuable books. We want no such building or books. We divide a city into districts, based upon popula tion. Iu each district wo havo a small building in a public park nud stoolt it with from teu to twenty thousand books. Instead of making the man go for the books, we bring the books to tho man's door. The chief objec tion raised to our system is that the dishonest will stenl tho books. To that our answer is: 'The dishonest are a small percentago iu this world, and if they do steal Looks they will certuiuly read them, whereas other wise they might remain iu igno rance.'" Philadelphia Saturduy Evening Post. Capo Colon 'a DelniiilerB. The inountedpolioo of Cape Colony lire picked men, used to fighting aud proud of the high reputation of their corps. Tho force contests of two thou sand cnlistod men and.eixty-eight offi cers. Tho men are recruited almost entirely iu England, and ore many of them the younger sens of gentlemen, who have no means of making a live lihood at home. They are mounted and receive $500 a year, out of whioh they are obliged to keep not only themselves but their horses. In ordi nary times they are scattered along the frontier iu little bands of thirty or forty, their duty being to keep the peace and prevent outbreaks on the part of the natives. They are said to cherish a particularly bitter hatred of the Boers, aud the suicide of Major Scott, their commanding officer, was the outcome of his chagrin at being tricked into the surrender of tho towu ' Vryburg. Mutter of I.ens;tll. "How long should mourning gowns be worn by a widow of twenty-two V" was the question thut came sobbing through the mails. Now it chanced to be the sporting editor's day off, and the religious edi tor, therefore, was attending to the Side Talks With You eg PersouB. . "There is no hard and fast rule," wrote the religious editor,confideutly, "but they ought to come dowu to the boot tops, at least." This incident illustrates the occa sional awkwardness of a newspaper standing as a bulwark of morals to the exclusion of everything else. Detroit Journal 1 GOOD ROADS NOTES. Money tMM by Had Rnatta. It is said that the direct money loss by bad roads in New York State is about $30,000,000 annually; this is no guesswork, but the result of careful investigation and computation. Illi nois loses $25,000,000 annually from the same cause, aocording to General Boy Stone. New York and Illinois are similarly conditioned as to city and country population, and the main object everywhere now is to bring tho cities to the aid of the country in buildiug roads. Professor W. C. Latta, of Purdue University, Indiana, has shown in a carefully ' prepared statement that the loss by bad roads for the whole farm area of the United States is very close to $500,000,000 annually.. He also pointed out that permanently good roads would prove financially beneficial to farmers in theso Tv ays: They would economize time and force in transportation be tween farm and market; enable for mers to tako advantage of market fluctuations in buying and selling; permit transportation of farm products and purchased commodities during times of comparative leisure; reduce wear and tear on horses, harness and vehicles; enhance the market valuo of real estate. It is as ceitain that as long as rural roads remain as they are, rural free mail delivery will often bo a physical impossibility, (leiioral Stone states that one of the latest electrical car riages, or automobiles, for twp per sons, weighs only a litt lo over a ton, inoluding: passengers and battery. One horte power will move this ve hicle over a good stone road at fifteen 'miles - per ' hour, or 1000 miles per week by daylight. This gives a jour ney of 1000 miles for two persons for $1, or nt the rate of about one-fortieth of the cost of railwuy travel. This is progress enough in tho art of trans portation to sii fllce for a few year at least. The students of aerostation are succeeding so well in the avt of flying that when they do equally well iu the art of alighting they may do away with the need of roads altogether; bnt until then we mus'u go on improv ing both roads aud vehicles aud mako travel as much like flyiug as possible Good Koitila in Other Countries. There are, it is estimated, 000,000 miles of highway roads iu the United States, about twenty per cent, of the roads of all tho world. Great Britain has 120,000 miles of roadways, and those are some of the best iu the world. Germany has 275,'l)00 miles ot roads, and some of them are as poor as the roadways of a great country can be. France, which has takeu an en lightened viow of the good roads question for many years aud has spent by governmental or local authority more than $1,000,000,000 ou highways, has a road mileage of 81)0,000, more than any other couutry. Bussia, with an enormous area, has only 70,000 miles of roadways, while Italy, a smaller country, has 55,000. Wide tires for heavy loads are prescribed iu all these oountries. ' A computation which finds much favor among the advocates of good roads is this: There are approxi mately, though the number is steadily on the decline, 11,000,000 horses iu the ITnited States (there were 15, 000,000 by the census of 1890), and there are about 2,000,000 mules, prin cipally in the South, the annual cost of fodder for these acimals being $1,500,000,000. On tine stone roads ; one horse can haul as much as three can haul over the average dirt road of this couutry. It is estimated that it would be necessary to build about 1,000,000 mileB of macadamized roads iu the United States iu ordor to have as good a system as is found iu several European States. At 81(K i a milo this would iuvolve an outlay of $1,000, 000,000, a pretty large sum. But if one-half of the draft animals could bo dispensed with by the building of such roads there would be an annual saving of $700,000,000 in the food bill. Conse quently if road bonds wcro issued bearing three percent, interest (1,000, 000 miles of macadamized road could be built without iacreasius tho annual espouses ono dollar. Two Important Factors. Good roads add materially to the value of any couutry. . A recent visit in tho rural sectious convinces us that tho two important factors in tho im provement of roads is the cutting down of grades and a thorough draiuage to prevent the damage clone to roads by streams of water flowing from water sheds. It is a waste of money simply to repair the surface of a road while permitting high grades to continue, preventing the truusport of economi cal loads of wood or farm produce. The practice should also be condemned of covering boulders aud rocks in the roadway with earth in the fall. They should be removed by blasting or by the nse of the crowbar, thus remedy ing the trouble ouce for all. The Antl-Kut Asllmlun In Ili-ief. Twenty years ago there was scarcely a mile or good wagon road in Egypt. During the last six years more than 1000 miles of fine roads havo beeu con structed. Tho reoent good roads Conventions held by farmers in Miuuebota, Wis consin, Iowa and Illinois have given substantial eucuuragement to highway improvement. A Toronto mau wants his govern ment "to enact a law compelling all vehicles carrying a dead weight of COO pounds or over on the publio highway, to have a tire not less than five inches wide." Governor Mouut's determination to make a pretentious display ot Iudiaua roads at the Paris Exposition und tho work which he has already begun iu collecting pictures from every soction of the State has occasioned a great deal of comment of au adverse nature from the people of his own and of ad joining States. State and county taxes being levied upon every taxpayer iu propor tiou to his wealth, the State aid system makes it possiblo to obtain contributions to the cost of good roads from railroad, insurance, street railway and telegraph compauies, aud from the wealthy oiti zeua in the cities, thus relieviug tho farmer of a considerable burden. It is said that the study of German is inoreasing in Franoe, while the study of English is on the deoliuo. PICKING BILLIONS OF FLOWERS. Work of Woman IThm tha Perfnma la tluatry la Carried on la Franoa. Grasse, in the southern part of Frauce, is the centre of the perfume industry. There women and girla may be seen, with broad hats on their heads, gathering flowers from 5 until 11 a. m. and then returning with thir fragrant burdens to the houses, where they pluok the leaves from the blos soms and pass the rest of the day in preparing them for the work of ex tracting the essences of essential oils, which contain the perfume itself.. In March they begin plucking vio lets, from which violet water is made, and from the beginning of May to the end of June they gather the jessa mine, roses and orange blossoms, as well as the tuberoses in July, the mignonette in August and the cassia in September. The nimble fingers of the women must move rapidly to plnck the millions and billions of leaves that go to make up the 1,200, 000 kilograms of rose leaves alone that are used each season. Besides there are a million kilograms of jessamine to be plucked, and violets and orange blossoms to the extent of two million kilograms a year. To give an idea of the number of plants that are raised for this huge result, it is calculated that each stalk of jessumineyields two kilograms of blossoms a season. So there mnst be at least live hundred thousand stalks to yield the million kilograms required. But tho gathering of the blossomt is only the bngiiiuiiig of the work, for then the flowers must be picked apart and all the spoiled leaves thrown aside. Then the making of the per fume begins. Tho leaves are spread oue by one upon layers of puro lard that cover plates of glass. Thrco br (our times these flower-layers are re newed before the lard bus absorbed all of the perfume that it can hold, fo.' the fat has a peculiar attraction for the essential oils ot the flowers. Thin perfumed lard is tho pomade of com merce, not the po nadu used for hai or beard, but the crude material on'; of which this is afterward manufac tured. The lard i then eithe. shipped as it is to other manufac turers, or put into alcohol whio'i draws oil' the perfume from the fut, having a stronger attraction therefor than the lard n 1 the result is the fluest eau de cologne. Most of this pomade is shipped as it stands tj all parts of Europe and America, but some of it. is reserved and the oils are extracted by distilling processes, mak ing tho purest extracts. WORDS OF WISDOM. The center of the world is home. Wrong, when strong, is always de fiant, Looking at the sun will never make au eagle out t a crow. Character building never has to slop for chaugo of weather. Character always has more iu the bank than it checks out. Some of the greatest strangers hi this world are parent and child. Everybody makes way for tho mm who pushes to the front in earnest. Ordinary ability and extraordinary perseverance will move the world. The mau who loves little is little, no matter what sizo bat ha wears. There is only about one man in (100 who knows how to raise a boy right. The strongest mau is generally the one who has had the most to over come. No lion-hearted man ever escapes getting tww e scratohes from the liuu'd paw. Some of Ihe brightest things this world contains cau ouly be seen through tears. It is hard to make a dyspeptio be lieve the world will ever beany bettor than it is now. There is alnaysa to-mono .v coming that is packing its truuk aud uiakiug its start to day. The manner in whioh truth is pre sented has much to do with whether it will be fought or loved. The world is always ready to take off its hat to the mau who does the light thing at the right time. If tho truth could be kuown, it would be found that people of medium talents average up better iu the mat of accomplishment than those of great ability, for what cau be doue easily is often not done at all, while the man who has to walk or work his passage generally mauuges to get there.--Barn's Horn Brown, iu Indianapolis Journal. Tales or a ttellreil Delei'tlve. "I recall a case where a man was 'wauted' in the West Indies," said a retired deteotive, well-knowu in Scotland Yard. "He was traced to Pimlico, but I found he had gone away from the house an hour or so be fore I arrived. The only clue was that he(had taken a cab with a gray horse. My game was to look for a gray horse in a cab, aud I had not walked a quar ter ot a mile before I hailed the driver of suoh au animal. It was the very cabman I wauted. My man was not inside, but I succeeded in arresting him at Liverpool, and took him back to the West Indies. "I recollect another case in which, while tracing the abduotor of an heir ess, I came upon another couplo who had eloped under precisely the same conditions from Germany. "Once I had a curious presenti ment. A man was arrested for fraud, and as he stood in the dook at the po lice court I felt that he had something upon him. He had been searched, but I had him searched again still without result. But I still was con scious of the same presentiment, aud I had him stripped. In bis souk theie was a little bottle of poison." Lou don Daily Telegraph. Giant Polloeinen. Four brothers named Kavanagb, from tbeoonntyof Wexford, who have just been admitted as reoruita to the ranks ot the Dublin Metropolitan Po lice, have created a mild seusatiou, as each of the brothers stands exactly six feet six iuohea in height and is built ja proportion. They are sons of a far aier, and are men of splondid physique, in addition to their unusual height. Two other brothers remain at home, who are presumably tha dwarfs of the family, being eaoh only six feet three iuohea iu height .but perhaps they have not yet attained their full elevation. DO THE FISHES TALK? QUEER PROPOSITION BROUGHT FORWARD. . a Bath tha I.antfl.h anit nrmaflsh Cat. . Bark Like a Io( The Eel anal tha Oliaarrl-Sliarl Km It Queer Boonda Whales Hare Been Known to Cry. Piscatorial cranks are Just now pa rading their knowledge on the subject of fish talk. It li freely admitted that fish that utter sounds are not rare to a remarkable extent; but to translate these sounds into the English or any other language and be able to appre ciate the feelings of the denizens of the deep rt various thrilling stages of their uncertain careers Is beyond tbs ken of ordinary mortals. We are Udd that a fisherman out at sea landed a strange fish In his boat, and that the finny captive Immediately opened ltt mouth and began to grunt and groan o loudly as to attract attention. The fisherman took it up and was so con vinced that It was talking and beg ging for liberty that he tossed It bark Into the brine. More musical than tha noise made by any fish Is Bald to be that of tho eel, while the loudest sound uttered by a fleh Is that of th Oogffsh. Both the lungflsh and the drumflsh utter singular barking sound" of peculiar resonance, and whi . have hren known to cry out as If for help when they have hfeen Btrnnded. Of the salmon and the trout little has beco learned, po far as fish-talk on theli part Is concerned, but this may be due In a measure to the fact that the man with the rod has never felt Inclined to devote his ear to patient listening of a well-stocked stream. If these favorite fish could talk, what tales they might unfold! What reputations might they blast! Perhaps It Is best for us atl that the trout Is not gifted with eloquence, like the eel and gizzard-shad. Perhaps, too, It were bet ter for us to continue on merely a glancing acquaintance, a gastronomicat acquaintance. If fishes talk they might even betray us to ourselves and take away from us the joy of our own de ceptions. Nevertheless, It la a ques tion for debate whether the noises produced by certain fish can be con sidered aB a language, or as expres sions of the emotions, fraught with meaning. Without a doubt we shall soon he in receipt of t batch of com munications from mountain resorts and watering-paces, throwing light on the matter of fish-talk, and It is not Improbable that we may learn that some Bostonlan scientist has already prepared a table of codfish sounds and' their meanings, so that a fisherman may sit still with line or net and call the fish to him at will. San Francisco News-Letter. Colors Known Centuries Ago. Colors are of great antiquity, and fre quent mention is made ot them in the BiHU; they played an important part in ligious rites and ceremonials. 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