Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa.. Nov. 25, I SPEGIAL MEETING OF i RIMES Tho trustees of the hospital for the insane held ti special meeting yester day, at which important action was token relating to the purification of the stream intersecting the hospital farm, which drains through the now uurfaeo sewer into the river. The drainage from the barnyard and the pig sty situated on the western hank has always been an important source of pollution; so that on the completion of tiie sewage disposal plant, wheu all tho waste matter from the hospital buildings was withdrawn fiom the stream, the latter was still very badly befouled at times, especially after heavy rains. At the last meeting of the board of trustees the engineer, Mr. Mebus, was directed to devise a method by which the drainage from the barnyard and pig sty might he diverted from the stream, making a plan for the same and submitting it to the board atllar risburg. At the meeting yesterday the eng ineer was ou hand with the plan, which had been approved at Harris burg. Tiie plan provides for the erec tion of a concrete retaining wall em bracing the frontage of both barn yard and pig sty and so situated as to in teicept the flow of .wastes, conduct ing it to a point at the lower end where it would flow into a pit. It is realized that formerly wheu the drainago from the farm buildings Went into tho stream the farm thereby lost a great dual of valuable fertiliz ing material. From now on tiie drain age will bo utilized; at intervals it will bo pumped out of the pit and hauled out ovor the fields. The retaining wall and pit, it is aatimated, will cost about $3,000. The trustees yesterday approved of the en- j tire plan and decide 1 that work should ] begin on the improvement immediate- I 'y Among the trustees present at the meeting yi sterday wer,!; Dr. B. H. | Betwiler.of Williamsport; W. F. Shay | of Watsontown; Dr. Harvey of Wilkes- ! Barre; G. R. Van Alen of Nortlium- j berland, and I. X. Grier, Esq., and I Hon. James Foster of Danville. Baffled. Two brothers were once at Crront ; von Moltke's house at an evening j party. Both were captains of the gen eral staff. The general came up to a group of gentlemen, one of whom was <«e of the brothers. After Joining in the conversation he said to the latter: "Just tell me who is that tall officer near the fireplace on tbe other side. I forget his name." "That's my brother, your excel lency," was the answer. A smile stealing over the general's flacc suggested the idea that he had not obtained the information be wish ed. Some time after the general went j Ao another group of people and there Joined the eilleer whose name he had Inquired. Suddenly the others saw him i turning away, with the same smile on his face. Afterward, when they Inquired from tiie young otticer what the general had j asked him. he replied: "He asked me who that officer was over there" "And what did you say?" "I said that he was my brother?" The general gave up inquiring the oame of the two brothers for that evening. Wanted It to Take. Mrs. B. believed in infant baptism, | but for some reason that rite was not j |»erformod lor Tommy till he was some : f»or or five years old. While the cere- ! mony was in progress the mother was | very much gratified with Tommy's be taavior. lie seemed duly Impressed With the solemnity of the occasion and remained with bowed head for ! some time after the sprinkling had been done. "The atigel!" exclaimed the mother. "The little dear!" said a good sister j as she went up to give him a "God bless you" and a pat on the head. Hut j Just as her hand was descending with i that benediction a very wrathful and tinangelic countenance was turned apon lier, a pugilistic little tist deliv ered a paralyzing blow on her biceps, and the Indignant Tommy exclaimed. ! "You git away from here!" Of course ho was led out In disgrace and questioned by his horrified mother. "Why, don't you know she would 'a' rubbed all the baptizing water off be fore it would 'a' had time to soak In?" 1 explained Tommy, who from his point of view was fully Justltied.—lx>s An geles 'limes. Buffoonery In "Hamlet." The buffoonery once tolerated in pro vincial theaters is illustrated In an an ecdote set forth in the memoirs of Bar- | ry Sullivan. Wright, who was tho first j gravedigger. prepared himself to take the house by storm by having Incased j his person within a dozen or more j waistcoats of all sorts of shapes and j patterns. When about to commence the operation ol digging the grave for the fair Ophelia Wright began to un wind by taking off waistcout after waistcoat, which caused uproarious ! laughter among the audience. But as | fast as he relieved himself of one j waistcoat Paul Bedford, the second j gravedigger. incased himself in tho rastolT vests, which increased the sal- j vos of laughter, for ns Wright was j getting thinner Paul grew fatter and i fatter. Wright, seeing himself out- , done, kept on the remainder of tbe I waistcoats and went on with his part j quite erestfalleu. VIRTUE IN SMOKING. One Man Who Now Has an Argumant Handy For His Wife. The wife of a Topeka man objects strenuously because her husband is a confirmed smoker. lie is never happy without a cigar or a pipe. The other morning she gave him a ten dollar bill and told him to buy several things for her. He pushed the bill into his coat pocket and rushed out of the house to catch a car. He found that ho had to wait a few minutes at the corner, for the cars were off schedule that morning, aud then he proceeded to light a cigar. But he found no matches—all of his pock els were bare of them. Suddenly he happened to think that he also missed the ten dollar bill. A hurried search disclosed that it was gone. He turned right about and retraced his steps. Just as he got in front of his home he happened to look into the street, and there was that "ten" tum bling around In the wind. Ills wife saw him go and pick it up, and she de manded an explanation. He promptly told her how looking for a match had caused him to discover that be had lost the bill. "Now tell mo there isn't any virtue in smoking!" he snorted as be puffed out his chest.—Kansas City Journal. Where Women Do All the Work. The smallest dependency of France is tho He d'Hoedie, situated at the east of Belle isle. Its population is liOO. They do not speak l'Yeucb. except the cure and the schoolmaster, but Celtic, and they are provided with food at an inn managed by the women. Fishing is the principal industry. The profits nre shared out each year among tbe inhabitants. The men live on soup and fish and smoke pipes with lobster claws for stems. The women do all the hard work—get in the harvest, look out for wreckage and gather seaweed, from which they extract soda. The town has uo streets. The houses are of mud. The islanders have a yearly feast in the early part of October. Tbe island possesses a good water supply. The governing body la composed of the ten ancients of the place under the direction of tbe cure. Th® Villain's Teeth. The two sets of false teeth looked Just alike, but one set cost flO more than the other. "There is a lot of extra work ou those expensive teeth." said the dentist. "They are made for an actor who always plays the part of heavy villain In melodrama, and he has to have teeth that ha can hiss with. I experimented ou three dlf- | ferent sets of teeth before I got tbe combination. Somehow tbe nice, even teeth that I usually turn out wouldn't permit the sibilant 'ss-sses' that he deals into escape with sufficient ven om. You wouldn't believe how much tinkering it takes to lick teeth into shape for the 's'deuths' aud 'od's bloods' to sound just right. Uf all the j people 1 ever made teeth for the heavy j stage villain is hardest to tit."—New : York Press. What Is a Gentleman? I'll have to give you tbe real detinl- \ tion of a real gentleman: "A man i : that's clean inside and out; who neither i looks up to the rich nor down on the j poor; who can lose without squealiug and who can win without bragging; who is considerate of women, chil- ' dren and old people; who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat and who ! takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs."—New York ■ Sun. He Was Wise. "It seems queer that she ever took • a fancy to him. He isn't at ail the ' kind of man one would expect her to admire." "I know, but lie always bad a way of noticing it when she happened to , have on a new hat or a gown thut had just come from the dressmaker's."— ' Chicago Record-Herald. Tommy's Question. Tommy—Papa, when a thuig is bought it goes to the buyer, doesn't it? Tommy's Papa—Y'es. my son. Tommy —Then how Is it that when you buy ! coal it goes to the cellar? The Oldest Joke. It will be difficult to discover an old- i er practical Joke than that of tho cop persmith and the maker of broaen im ages for the temple of Osiris, which Is embodied in Egyptian Inscriptions dat- ] ing from tho reign of Menes, founder of Memphis, who ruled over 7,000j years ago. According to ancient rec-1 ords, there dwelt between these two craftsmen a quiet man whose desire, was for peace and who was sadly dis- J turbed by the noisy occupations car-1 ried on by his busy neighbors. He therefore asked each of them to say for what sum they would change their dwellings. This tbey did. Each calcu-: lated the amount required, and he, be- j ing satisfied, paid it over to them. "Now," he asked of the coppersmith, "where is your new dwelling?" "1 have taken that of the maker of im ages," was the reply. "And you." ! queried the quiet man of the latter,' "whither goest thou?" "To the house of the coppersmith!" This Is one of many tales told in nil ages which are woven Into myth and legend and differ only In local color. Melodrama to Suit tho Locality. In New York.—Marry me and give me those papers and you will receive $.-.00,000 In cash. Refuse and I'll toss you from the Brooklyn bridge! In Wilkesbarro, Pa.—And you will receive seventy acres of richest an thracite coal. Befuse aud you go iuto ' a coal breaker! Choose! lu Denver.—And you will receivej 7,000 shares of Cmpste gold mining stock, worth nnipste dollars a share. Refuse and you will bo c-r-r-rusbed in a stamp mill to p-o-o-wdcr! Choose! | In Memphis, Tenu.—And you will re- 1 ceive 10,000 baies of Guest cotton. Be-! fuse and you go Into the cottou gin! Choose! In North Carolina.—And you will re-1 ceive 18,000 barrels of turpentine. Be fuse and you shall be boiled in resin! Choose!— Puck. He who lives in the spirit never: grows old. The outward man per- ! ishes, but the inward man has a per- j potual youth.—Phillips Brooks. KNEW IT WOULD RAIN. And He Had a Substantial Baaia For His Conviction. A mission toucher on tbe Bowery, by the force of his enthusiasm, succeeded In paining tho interest of a well known lough. who begun nt once to change his way of living, certainly to the sig nal betterment of his worldly comfort He wore new clothes, associated with attractive people and experienced the prosperity of peaceful ideas. The convert, though much regenerat ed, could not wholly abandon his for mer life, and the drift of his mind to ward things of the past came into startling evidence. He attended a non devotional class meeting called by his mentor for the special purpose of con sidering the practical ways and means of promoting a monster basket picnic. An appropriate date for the picnic was one of the matters to be decided. Much to the general astonishment, the convert was greatly opposed to the date favored by all the others. A recess was taken to discuss the issue more Informally, and the mission worker drew his protege aside to Interrogate him. "It Is going to rain that day," de clared the convert earnestly. "It will spoil the picnic." "But how do you know it is so cer tain to rain?" Then the convert blurted forth his reasons helplessly, but with convic tion: "I have it straight that Taboo's peo ple will start her in the third on that very day. She is out for a killing, and I never knew her to run that it didn't rain."—New York Telegraph. Telephone Gesticulation. "It was the constant gesturing of that fellow at the other end of the wire that mnde it so bard to catch what he said," growled a man who had been wrestling with the telephone In a downtown office. "How in the world could you tell ho was making gestures?" asked tbe in credulous listener. "By the Jerky Way the word* cauit* over the wire. Many people get so excited when telephoning that they gesticulate as frantically as if they 'were talking with a man face to face. Their bouncing around and sawing ttw air break the voice, and the sentences coins over the wire lu fragments. I have talked with so many people who, I learned later, were dancing a Jig at the other end of the wire that I al ways can tell wheu that gesticulating Is going on."—New York Qlobe. Tho Awakening. Two weeks after he hud faced the parson with the only girl In the world he chanced upon Jones, one of his old bachelor friends. "Well, old man," remarked the lat ter, grinning. "I can't say you look the part of a happy benedict. What's the trouble? Have you suffered a disap pointment?" "I have," answered the other grimly. "My wife can't sing!" "Can't sing?" echoed Jones cheerily. "But in that case 1 should have said you were to be congratulated." 'That's not the trouble." responded the .voting husband. "The trouble Is she thluks she can!" His Authority. Browning—l hear you are engaged to that young widow who Is visiting relatives here. Is It true? Greening— Yes. Browning—How did you discov er that she was the one woman in the world for an old bachelor like you? Greening—Why. she—er—told me so Chicago News. ANTIQUITY OF DICE. Origin of These Devices Buried In the Remote Past. Scholars have delved in \aiu for the origiu of dice, which, in various shapes, have been used in forms of worship and religious ceremonies since the dawn of history. Their earlier use was for the forecasting of events and obtaining of divine guidance. Their adaptation to a game of chauco WHS comparatively quite recent. There is a surprising number or varieties of dice, but they m:i.v ne di vided into two general clauses I lie most familiar form Is the cu!>.* U uli two exceptions—the Korean mm i.: rus can—cubical dice have the >is -»• ar ranged that the six and one. nve and two and three aud four are opposite, making the sum of the opposite sides invariably seven, in nil ages the num ber seven has been regarded with par ticular awe and as having much mys tic import. The dice just described are not only proper to modern Europe and Amer ica, but to classical Greece and Home, ancient Syria. Persia, India. China. Japan and Siam. The other form is the long, square prism sometimes found amid prehistoric ruins in Europe and existing today in India. A most interesting form is the top or spinning dice, with four or six sides, which was twirled with the thumb and second linger, of which a specimen was discovered in the re mains of Naucratis, a Greek colony of COO B. C. Two specimens of dice have been discovered at Babylon.—Harper's Weekly. WIRELESS ACROSS PACIFIC. Steamship Minnesota Sent the Hert zian Waves 3.C28 Miles. Tho Great Northern steamship Min nesota, plying between Seattle and the orient, was in communication with the Seattle and Japanese wireless statious every night during her last trip. She exchanged messages with the Seattle station of the United Wireless com pany until she was 3.C2S miles on her way to Yokohama. This establishes a new record between ship and shore. The distance is greater than from Nova Scotia to the Irish coast, between which messages are occasionally sent by means of high powered wireless ap paratus from towers of great altitude. To appreciate the significance of the Minnesota's wireless performance it should be understood that the mes sages were sent from the ordinary ship's aerial and that the apparatus is of only live kilowatt power, Instead of the fifty kilowatt power now used to transmit messages between tne Nova S?cotia aud Irish coasts. IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS An authority has the follow iug to say concerning the situation in the business world: Copper has taken a better position in increased business in manufactur ing lines,and the negotiations looking to the formation of a copper combina tion to control production. There is no retrograde movement in iron and steel. The demands of the railroads for steel rails and equipment, as well as the demands for building purposes, are crowding production almost to tho limit. New buying in finished steel products continues to be limited chiefly by the sellers, who are con servative in booking orders at all, and at higher prices the further off the de livery. The pig iron markets are qniet all over the country, and there is more cutting than for some time, although not much more than often occurs in a normal market. The wool market is quiet and almost featureless, a result of the small selection of wools in the hands of dealers,and the light demand from the mills. In the East there is a car shortage, especially in coal cars. This is the season when coal for dom estic purposes is in especial demand, and from the West there have been some cries of alarm because supplies of coal are so short. Rail purchases for next year have amounted to about a million and a half tons thus far. Wire mills are doing an enormous busi - ness. Tin' Pennsylvania railroad has ordered 125 locomotives and 5,000 coal cars and as many freight cars, and the Heading lias ordered 3,000 coal ears. The former has just JJplaced an order for '.'70,000 tons of rails. Cotton specu lation is less active than it was recent ly; the price doesu't change much,but keeps near fifteen cents. The Boston wool market remains quiet and almost featureless. There is a marked im provement in the demand for men's wear goods for next year. Clothing prices have advanced. Dress goods for next fall are bringing higher prices. Orders are being received in larger volume by New England shoe manu facturers, ami prospects are reported to be better than at any time this fall. No Lis Aftsr All. They were telling; Ush stories. in? < fact which was not In itself reman. • hie recently trieil !he gravity of tli•- i listeners. It was ■ ! their loss and sorrow One is the .t j phau. who, although no .oncer v. i is an orphan still and must so mi; j tlnue The other Is the mother, far . advanced In years, who has snrtueit | her daughter, although considerate* | her senior."—Youth's Companion Physicians In Japan. Medical students in Japan mint In had eleven or twelve years of prelin • , nary traiuing In the lower schools v. j one may practice medicine who n | I tee ti convicted of a crime. All pin ! clans for the first teu years dun i which they follow their calling int. 1 keep full written records of all tli ' cases, and they must not issue boast ful advertisements or claim the e.v it ! sive right to any healing invention ' with an inula. Tho Best Proof. r ittle '''■ set i i n years old, was sent "good scrub" be fore dinner, urn returned so quickly that his mother declared he couldn't possibly have washed himself, lie r-- plied. "Truly I did. mother, and if you don't believe it you can just goto the bathroom and look at the towel."—De lineator. Wells In India. The question of wells in India Is complicated by the coexistence in ench community of two castes—the puret Hindoos and Uonds on tho one hand, the weavers on the other. No weaver may draw from the well of tho Llin doos lest it be defiled, nor will the Hindoo drink from the bauds or the well of a weaver. Thus It becomes nec essary either to dig two wells or to depute a certain number of the Hindoo element to give water to ttieir less ex alted fellow villagers. Almost Human. "Oh, Oeorge," tearfully exclaimed his wife, meeting hiin at the door, "that parrot you brought home the other day"— "What's the matter with him?" ask ed Mr. Ferguson. "I don't know. He won't tell me. When 1 ask him what the trouble is he just swears dreadfully."—Exchange. CORK IS KING IN UNITED STATES : ! Cotton is only a princo as compared < to King Corn. All other American I crops are dwarfed when tho bulk anil < value of t.i corn crop is considered. ■ Tho 1901) yield of corn in the United 1 States is 2,767,310,000 bushels. As tho ' price is hovering around 60 cents per bu?liel, tho actual value of this single , crop is more than $1,660,000,000, or nearly $1,000,000,000 more than the value of the wheat, crop. Tho latest estimate of the depart; \ meut is about 175,000,01)0 bushels great er than tho figures indicated by the October report, but they are far short of the early estimates, which ran as high as 11,000,000,000 bushels. That this enormous crop of corn can be easily taken care of in the markets at j home and abroad is shown by the j movement of the preceding crops, j That of 1908 was 2,668,000,000, bushels, | and in the poor crop year of 1907 the I yield dropped to 2,592,000,000. The ! crop of 1906 was 2,927,000,000 bushels, j so that the average for tho three years I , j preceding 1909 was 2,728,00,000 bushels | J or but 86,000,000 bushels less than the j ' 1909 crop. This shortage, as compared with the average supply for the pre- j 1 ceiling three years,is a irere bagatelle, j ; and it'is strange that the announoe ; J mi nt of the department's figures should have caused weakness iu the market. There is a steady increase iu the j consumption of corn, and each year j finds an increasing quantity diverted ,to uses which are of very recent iu -1 ception. Not many years ago corn was iso cheap that it was used for fuel iu ' Kansas, but the ease with which the markets at home and abroad have as similated au average of 2,729,000,000 bushels per year for the past three i years points conclusively to the fact . that corn will never again be avail able at a price that will warrant its ij use for fuel. Unless there is a weaken ; iug in the price of other grains, home consumption will take up all of this j mammoth corn crop,and leave us again r| with bare bins, as was the case when the 1901) crop began moving to market. I King Cotton is all right iu his small kingdom iu the South, but, as a pro- j digal distributor of wealth, corn is king by an overwhelming majority. ' Old Time Quackery. The eighteenth century was the gold- j en harvest time of the quack, against j whom some of the fiercest shafts of j Hogarth's satire were directed. Tho j quack loved to surround himself with au atmosphere of mystery, which was ; calculated to impose upon the creduli- 1 tv of his victims. Ills room was be- I decked with skulls and skeletons. A ! brisk trade in quackery was carried ; on by women. J. C. Wright In his I ' I book. "The Good Old Times," records J ■ ' the fact that in the year 1780 "a Mrs. j Joanna Stephens was awarded £5,0u0 by the IJngllsh government 'for a proper dixrovery made by her for the cure ot the stone.' This -proper dis ' covery,' " adds Mr. Wright, "consisted of a powder, a decoction and pills, the last named being formed from calcined snails, with carrot seeds, hips and baws. tiu- compound being burut to ! ' bhickne - and then tuixed with soap : anil honey.' A Ludicrous Experiment, I Holme* WHS one of tin- many eml- I nent men who have attempted to solve ■ the riddle ot the universe. In his case fhe result was ludicrous. From the c sublime thoughts that came to him while under Che Influence of chloro i form he thought he might arrive at some solution. Placing himself in his ! armchair, with pen. ink and paper at i j hand, he inhaled the anaesthetic. As ! , drowsiness stole over him the nature i of things seemed revealed. By a vtg. j orous effort he seized his pen aud wrote—he knew not what, for before ; i | he had finished be fell back uncon j scions. When he recovered he turued ; with trembling anxiety to the sheet of j paper, or. which, written in scrawling ! characters, but quite legible, he found i t the awful revelation, "A strong smell ! of turpentine pervades the whole!"— I/ondon News An Accommodating Boy. A Newark woman who lives in an ■ apartment house changed her iceman 1 j not long ago. and the next day the j i youth who drove the team for the new 1 \ man put the piece of ice on the dumb j waiter in the basement to be hoisted j i up. She pulled away. "neavens," she exclaimed, "that j : new iceman certainly gives good i ! weight!" j After much effort she got the dumb | i waiter up to the kitchen level. To her j : amazement, there was a small boy sit- \ i ting upon the ice. With what little j i breath she had left she demanded: "What In the world did you make me J I pull you up here for?' ' j "Why," replied the youngster, "I j ' | thought maybe the cake would be too i | heavy for you to lift, so I came up to j ' : help you off with it."—Lippincott's. - j Out of His Line. Western ltelative.—Well. Wendell, j what was the score today? Little Bos ton Boy—Keally, 1 do not know, is It not your opinion. Uncle William, tu.it the theism of Clement and Athanaslus furnishes a much more tenable basis ft>r a rational theory of creation than Is afforded by that of Augustiue?- Chicago Tribune Competent. Irate i'asse tiger—i believe you're driving over every stone in tho road Driver—Waal, sir, It takes a purry good driver to hit 'em aIL-Bostou | Herald. Needed Repairs. "Does your typewriter need repairs?" asked the meandering tinker as he en tered the ottiee. "It would seem so," replied the em ployer. "She has just gone across the street to cousult a dentist." AN ARCTIC RESCUE. Th« Feeling When the Relief Ship Came Into View. Very often during the months of ■ daylight we stood ou the cliff stridulus our eyes to see the longed for relief j ship. As the summer of 1005 slipped ou we almost despaired, but one day in July, when hope had almost aban doned us, we saw one of the boys Jumping up and down and supposed that at last his brain had given way under the strain. In fact, many of us were almost crazy with the monotouy and anxiety that were upon us day after day. We watched a moment and , wondered which of us would be the next togo off his balance. When we went to him and saw what he saw, the long looked for relief ship. I don't know whether we all Jumped | for joy or what we did, for we have no memory of our actions in that hour. Quickly each man gathered his little kit, ready to rush to the boats and leave forever that island where death had stared us In the face for sixteen mouths and where we had almost given up ail hope of ever again look ing upon the faces of our loved ones. In our frantic haste to be goue many of us left behind relics and records which we prized and later regretted the loss of. At the end of sixteen j months the relief ship Terra Nova had j arrived, and we steamed to Norway. ! where our party divided, some ! to Loudon and others to Germany, j Captain Edwin Coffin's Account of the | Zlegler Polar Expedition iu National | Magazine. Has Seven Sons. A mother who had only one child, a sou, lost him through an accideut by drowning when he was seventeen. His body was washed out to sea and never recovered. She very much wanted a portrait of him, and she called a fa | mous artist who was a friend of the | family. He asked for every photo ; graph she had of her son from baby j hood onward. When tho painting ar j rived it represented a glade in a wood. ; : I'laying about were Ave little children ! I of various ages, but alt the same boy | j as hia mother had known him. Com- I | ing dowu the center, Joyous, gay, was | l the seventeen-year-old lad leading his j | baby self of oue year by the hand, j | The mother looked at the picture and ! burst into tears. "1 have lost seven j 1 sons!" she said. "You had lost six of them before I your son died," the artist replied. Stealing Sea Water. "They arrested me in Italy for steal- i ! Ing a bucket of water out of the sea." j ' The reporter laughed, tie thought j j that the tourist on the pier was jok ing, but tile tourist resumed: I "It's a fact. Vou ean't draw water 1 j out of the Italian seas without a per- ; j mit. The idea is to prevent your dodg- I ing the salt tax. Salt, you know, is I very heavily taxed in Italy. It's a ' government monopoly. You buy it only ; I In the government tobacco shops—a ; j nickel a package, vest pocket size. And | the government won't let you monkey ! with soa water lest you extract the i salt from it." _ Not Vindictive. | "There are germs lying in wait for yon. no matter where von turn." said tbf scientist. "I know it." replied llie matter ol la. t person. "I dislike germs as much ' as anybody eau. but I'm not going T«» quit eating, drinking aud hreatliinw Just to spite Vin. '—Washington star Hi* Examination Concluded, in ihe evidence before a parliauieu ' tary committee concerning the opposi tion to a railway Hodge scored a point which accentuates a certain legal tlc tion with reference to skilled wit ."I esses. ) A Scotch farmer was giving his tes timony in favor of the hill. "Is it true." said the wily K. C. iu his most searehlug style, "that you. sir. said to Mr. liuild that you were willing to give your eviueuce on the other side if they would pay you bet ter V" "Aye." said the pawky farmer, "and" (after a pause) "let me jist pit the j same question to ye—if ye had been offered a bigger fee, wad ye no liae been on th'lther side yersel'V" It is needless to say that the K. C. i did not cross question the witness fur ther.—Pearson's Weekly. Pipes Frozen by Warm Spelts. It is a curious fact that water pipes under ground will often f p eeze during the warm s|*?ll that follows a cold (•nap. The explanation made for this interesting phenomenon is that after a I cold wave a large quantity of heat is takeu froiu the ground iu the work ot j changing the frof.en moisture into wa ! ter. and thus, on the principle of the ! ice cream freezer, the pipe is chilled, j enough heat being taken from it to I freeze it. The Shade He Wanted. I I'elacroix, the painter, was walking • out oue day iu I'aris with a friend of | his when he fell iuto a brown study. I "What is up with you now?" said i the lrieud. j "I can't get a certain shade of yei j low," replied the artist. "What sort of yellow?" | Just then a cab drove past. | "The very thing!" the painter gasped | out. "Stop, stop!'' | "I am engaged," tho cabby replied without stopping. Delacroix started in pursuit and at a steep place in the IJue des Martyrs overtook the cab. Opening the door, he said in tones of entreaty to the pas senger inside: "Do please tell your driver to stop. ; I want your complexion tor a painting ! on which I am at work. There is a color merchant close at hand. 1 shall not detain you above fivo minutes, and in acknowledgment of the service you render tue 1 will present you with a | sketch of my picture." The bargain was struck. Delacroix j got his yellow, and a few months later the "fare" received a sketch ot hia j "Assassination of the Archbishop of j Liege." Cause For Thanks. "Alas!'' sighed the tramp dramatical ly. "No matter where I turns, there's a hand raised against me." "Which shows you ought to be thankfnl ter one thing," 6ald the farmer. "What's that?" "That it ain't a foot that's raised." MURDER AT IFiTIiIBEW Pay day on the big classification yards job of the Pennsylvania railroad at Northumberland on Tuesday result ed disastrously, chief among tho de predations performed by the vicious foreign element employed there being the killing of a man during a quarrel over a woman. The wounded man died yesterday afternoon at the Mary Pack er hospital. Three of the houses that are used by the contractors. Eyre 5 .Shoemacker, toTiouse their employes were burned, and numerous smaller affrays were recorded. The man who died was George Kav onski. He arrived at tho Packer boa pital in Sunbury yesterday morning with a gash in his abdomen inflicted by a fellow workman with a knife in a quarrel over a woman. ' The injured man had been taunting the perpetrator of the crime about las misfortune in losing the affections of the. woman when without the slightest warning he drew a murderous looking knife and Ravonski which resulted in his death. In spite of the serious nature of tho I crime the authorities wore'not notifi ed by the officials at the works until yesterday morning,although the affray happened before Hi o'clock Tuesday night. As a result the criminal escap ed. Ho is described as a man 5 feet ? inches tall, weighing Jr usa in atomizers 75 cts. i J Ely Brothers, ."»«> Warren Mr.-, t, New YorL. 60 YEARS' EX P E RIE NC E 9 Mii 18Tf I tyl | | DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS 4C. Anyone Bonding a sketch nnd description may qnlokly ascertain our opinion free whether an , ; invention in probably KUcmable. 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