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FRIDAY. SEI'TEMi ... Ibß9. I
OFKICIAI. returns show that there were
produced in France last year, I,B' 0.000,-;
000 gallons of milk, which was four times
the wine product. The fret tin.t the de
partment reporting the largest i nduct of
milk had the least yield of w'r i- noted. I
As wiue is worth at the vine, e l about
four times as much as milk at I dairy,
the results in money wercaliout the same.
IT would seem that a henotlcient spirit
in behalf of the education of gills is astir
all over the country. The newspapers
lately mentioned the Prove! Industrial
Institute, near Philadelphia. Now a sim
ilar institution is contemplated at Chicago.
About fifteen years ago, Allen C. Lewis, a
retired capitalist of that city,died and left
3 large estate, which was to he used in es
tablishing and endowing a free polytech
nic or manual training .school. This fund,
in the hands of the trustees, has increased
to a million dollars, and work on the
school will soon begin. No ell'ort will he
spared to make the school one of the very
est, with competent instructors, and all
acilities'aud appliance, to give its pupils
the finest possible training that may
make them self-supporting and inde
pendent. Last, but not least, every de
partment will bo open to girls and boys
on equal terms. No distinctions will be
made. So say the trustees.
it AO KO.VIK
Every one knows that the roads in tliis
country are about the worst that exist in
any civilized count!y in the world. Of
course, the reason for it is that railroads
are built so soon after the settlement of
any new portion of it that the need of
good wagon ruads is not felt in anything
like the degree iu which it otherwise
would be; and in the older portions of
the country roads that were once good
are sometimes allowed to get out of re
pair for the same reason. The recent
description of the French roads and how
they are kept up, written by .Mr. Joseph
Panned for Harper's Weekly , is no doubt
a revelation to many Americans of what
may he done in the way of road making.
Nothing like those roads has ever existed
in this country.
A conviction of the need of better,
wagon roads seems to be gradually per
meating the public mind, and seine im
provement has taken place during the
last few years. There is reason to hope
that a much greater improvement will
take place In the next few years . and this
largely because of the efforts of the League i
of American Wheelmen. This orgaoiza- .
tion is of course interested iti the main
tenance of good roads everywhere. Its
members explore all the highways and
byways of the country. They know the
few good roads and the many had ones,
and they know bettc r how had tire bad
onc3 are than almost anybody el e. Fur
thermore they ure young m m. tliey are
enthusiastic, they are harmonious, and
they are well organized. We may there
fore expect that they will be able to ac
complish something.
TS Tilt. UNEXPECTED THAI OCCUKS
President Garfield's saying that " It
was the unexpected that was always oc
curring in his life," is true of most of the
occurrunccs of the world. Plans may lie
well laid, projects may be skilfully ar
ranged, schemes may he wisely devised,
but the large majority of things happen
ing to mankind come in unexpected
ways and at unexpected times ; while j
most of the expected tilings don't come at
all. All of which is made quite manifest
in about nine-tenths of the thing} pre- j
dieted in the news columns of the public
press. The hundred and one things that
are going to take place, according to
cablegrams and tellegrams, and specials
in the daily papers, don't materialize :
and instead of reading the occasional an
nouncement, " us we predicted," or " as
this paper aid," a verification of the
things predicted, we read of occurranees
that no human foresisihtcver dreamed of.
It is now a dynamite catastrophe, or a
railroad disaster, or a Hood destruction,
at places and times and under circum
stances no one foresaw.
The hundreds of persons arrested and
imprisoned for hienous crimes, and who
are sure to be lynched according to spec
ial correspondents, are seldom molested.
Only occasionally do the predictions
come true. Just now we are reading
that the expected bloody termination of
the great London strike didn't occur.
After being so fully prepared by lengthy
cablegrams for hearing of one of the
greatest and most terrible conflicts be
tween labor and capital in the world's
history, it is rather refreshing to know
that the unexpected peaceful settlement
of the trouble hits taken place.
And thus it is generally with the ways
of the world. It has a provoking method
of fooling us iu our expectations, and of
ove:whelming us with new and unex
ji.'.n! ictl.:.lilts.
TUB young holy students of the State ,
University of Nevada, at Ileno, have
udopted uniforms of navy-blue flannel.and
tin y challenge the young lady students of
any other institution to produce a more ,
hygienic dress than theirs. The young ;
ladies are drilled for Imlf nn hour each ]
day in military exercises.
THF. Young Women's Christian Associa j
lion lias undertaken a great practical
work ia establishing educational societies ■
for young women, evening schools, gym
nasiums, libraries, and other me'hods to
help young women toward refined and j
pure living. The Association has Ml col- j
lege societies, and thirty-seven city soet- !
i etios; sixteen have rooms and four have
| employment bureaus. Miss Cnnibel Tarr.
a graduate of the University at Norma),
. 111., a successful teacher, and a strong,
j womanly young woman, is Corresponding
j Secretary of the Association, and pro
poses to engage actively in the work of
organizing.
CHICAGO IN ' KI.I.tOMNCK.
| The rivalry existing between St. Louis J
and Chicago has led the former to say
some ugly things, not only about the big
feet of the ladies of the latter city, lmt, |
also, about the illiteracy of its citizens j
generally. But the getting, or the effortj
rather, to get a jury for the ('renin mur
der trial, goes lar to prove that Chicago
is one of the most enlightened cities of
this whole great American country. Several
days of examining men for the jury lias
failed to find even one man ignorant
enough for jury services. Of the scores
examined not one has yet been found who
caunot read—anil all have read every
thing the papers have puliiished about the
murder, and have formed and expressed
an opinion. We suggest that New York
or Boston should be tried.
DEATH OF BON. S 8. COX.
The deatli of Hon. S. 8. Cox, in New
York, on Tuesday evening is a source of
regret to the whole nation. Among the
limited number of statesmen at Washing
ton who might properly be called famous,
"Sunset" Cox, as he was popularly
known, was long a prominent figure,
lie was a man of unusual versatility. He
succeeded in journalism, in the law and
in politics. liis career in Congress was
one of steady, useful endeavor. To him
the country is indebted for the life-saving
service, for the abolition of the fractional
currency, and fort lie paternity of the bill
erecting the four new States recently ad
mitted to the Union. He was identified
with most of the wise and progressive
legislation adopted during his member
ship in tin- House of Representatives, and
by his ready it and logical habit of mind
made himself a power iu debate and a
dangerous foe to the legislative jugglery
which only too often creeps into the
transactions of Congress. Setting aside
the conventional practice of lauding the
dead, it may be said truly of Mr. Cox that
he was a man who deserved well ol his
country.
ISN'T IT PINNY?
The antics of circus clowns and th, (
funny things told of those " amuscu
cusses" called the king's fools, are ail
| tbrowu into the shade by some of the per
j t'urinances of the grand old party that
j prates about pi in h and consistency.
I To say nothing of it:- hypocritical profes
sions concerning civil s rvice reform, one
can't help being amused over the differ,
ence between its profession and practice
in regard to '.lie confederate generals.
Whenever a Sou! horn Slate has elected
a Congressman, Legislator, Judge, Gov
crnor of a eonf. h i tu antecedent Repub
lican politicians hue: -denounced tile net
as little short of downright treason, and
the Democratic party North and South
lias been pi inb-.l to a . u traitorous organ
ization. Everybody knows what a dickens
of a fuss they have made about the Dem
ocratic ; ..rtv being represented in Con
gress by rche! brigadiers. \ml yet in the
face of all till-tiie tiel.ct put in the field
in V rginla by tic Kej üblicans, and
advocated by the Harrison Administration,
has not a single name on it from Governor
down tlint was not identified with the
rebel army. 'Mahone, Slump and Lurty
the nominees for the three principal offices
were not only in the Southern Army, but
! were distinguished as rebel generals.
I Think of it, every man on the ticket is on
' the list of rebel brigadiers, and us un
reconstructed as Wade Hampton, or any
other Southern general in Congress.
After this decency if not consistency
ought to close the mouths of Republicans
who have been making such ado about
Democrats electing to important offices
men who were in the Confederate Army.
I'KIII'II. I.IVI: I.T'UEU NOW.
Facts clearly prove that the people nt
, tain a greatir .<• now tnan in any period
of the world's history, except in the times
of the fabulous .Matlnisnleti. With all
that pessumisls and croukcrs say to the
contrary this is an uge of exceptional
, longevity. It is u fast age some say, and
our manner of living shorten our days,
which is true enough, but not any more
so than any of the previous ages.
Among men who have lived long and
lived well the world to-day has itsßrown-
Sequaids, its Gladstones, its Hannibal
Humlins, who are lode uml hearty away
up in and above their "three suore and
tens," and many verging the one hundred
line.
Down in Y'ork, Pa., William Young,
WHO voted for John Quiucy Adams in
1 SC4. died last Sunday, aged eighty-six.
John lin.ilor, of Oxford, Maine, is over
one hundred years old, and runs u farm
of fffty-tluee acres, doing most of the
work himself. Jordan Jenkins, of New
j ..A ~ died las. Week lu his 111 th
Voir. Hi* was a native of \ i'inuia. Tln-re
I arc six persons now living in Fruiters.
| town. N. ii., whose ng •* run from eighty
I to ninety years. A colored woman died
j last Tuesday, at Murphy, N. C., who was
! believed to lie over 121 year.- old. At ;t
I Mount Prospect, N. H.. Mrs Sally Weeks
! Buck nam celebrated; her lOOlh birth
I day last week. Mrs. Susanna (iiehardson. i
i wile of David Richardson, of Livingston.
| Me., is ninety-nine years old, and does '
j her own household work, milks two '
| cows, and churns butter twice a week, j
; Shakespeare, or Solomon, or some other
j wise old feltow once said something not '!
j very complimentary about people who are \ i
i always sighing for tile past, ami saying;
| that former limes were better than tlu-i
j present.
! THIS COLOIUOO MINK l>l.s,VSTi;u.
i Eleven Men Killed—Their Widows and |
i Orphan* Gathered Alioill ilie Pit Moutli. ,
Dhnvbk, Cor,., September 10. -The fol- 1
lowing particulars of the \\ bite Ash coal
mine disaster, near Golden, Colorado, I
were brought here ibis morning fiom ;
1 that place by special couriers. They say J
I eleven men were killed in all. The vie i
| lims were at work in a drift from lite hot- !
' torn of the shaft at a depth of 7iit) feet, and '
I were 800 feet in the shaft. Yesterday |
I morning there were some fifty feet ol
! water to this shaft. The water finally
I burst through the shaft and Hooded the
I drift in which the men were at work.
| There is not the slightest hope
of rescuing any of the men alive,
and it will require weeks ot hard
work '. efore even their bodies can ha
reached. The names of the victims arc :
John Murphy, single, William Collins,
married, leaves a wife and four children ;
Jack Collins, leaves a wife and four chil
dren ; Joseph APcn, leaves a wife and one
child ; Joseph Butler, leaves a wife and
four children; William Bowden, mar
ried ; David Lloyd, single; John Morgan,
•single; Henry 11 usemau, leaves a wife
ane live children ; Richard Rotve and an
other man whose name lias not been
learned. The mine, which is located
about one mile from Golden, furnishes
from fifty to one hundred tons of coal per
day. The work of pumping out the
water was begun this morning. The
widows and orphans of the victims gath
ered around the mouth of the shaft alter
nately crying and praying for their
loved ones, ami tie. ccnc is pitiful.
Gettysburg'* Week.
As the years roll by reunions of com
rades in the late war are more eagerly
looked forward to and heartily enjoyed.
Not a veteran in all Pennsylvania who
could possibly get there would be absent
from the exercises this week at Gettys
burg. The heavily loaded Day Express,
yesterday and its throe equally heavily
loaded sections which followed, with
their passengers woo wore the blue sulli
ciently attest this fact. From Johnstown
there went to the ordinarily quiet town of
Gettysburg hut which now is full of life,
Captain's Kuhu, Hamilton, and Ncsbit
comrades James Benford, John Thicker,
John Woods, Daniel Miller, Thomas D.
Jones, Adam Shaffer, John Dull, Jere
miah Penrod, James S. Ashbridgc, (and
his wife) Jacob ilarshberger, A. N. Hart,
(and wife) Samuel Judy, Jacob Swank,
Jacob Mishlcr, Uriah Mishler, and
Charles He&ddrick. A number of others
from points near here joined these,
among theni J. W. Elder, of Latrouu;
Adam A. Shaffer, of Somerset county ;
Charles 11. Punier, Adam Custer and
Captain A. Grimtu, of Sloyestowu ;
Frank Roogers, of Hooversville, and
John E. Woods, of Frowardstown. Cap
tain Nesbit was the only person who
went from Camp Hamilton. He joined
his Company which came on from Pitts
burgh.
Hall Hale* to Columbus.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, will convene
at Colombo-, Oiiio, September 16th to
22d. This meeting will undoubtedly
bring together the largest assemblage of
the order ever before gathered on a simi
lar occasion, it is expected that 15,000
members, including a large number of
Patriarchs Militant, will be in attendance.
The parades and public ceremonies which
will extend through the week will be
highly interesting to the public as well as
to members of the order. For this occa
sion the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets from all princi
pal stations on its lines east of Pittsburgh
and Erie (except New York), September
13lh to 16th, valid for return until Sep
tember 20, 1889, at the rate of a single
fare for the round trip. the universally
admitted superiority of tiie Pennsylvania
Railroad's great system of through trains,
equipped with coaches, sleeping and
dining cars, affording every convenience
to the traveler, commends this route to
the favorable consideration of visitors.
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Sertoli* Al<leit to Mr. Colborn.
somerset Democrat.
Last Friday evening Hon. A. J. Col
born met with a painful and quite serious
accident, which may possibly result in a
lameness in his left leg for the rest of his
life. He had been attending special meet
ing of the Masonic Lodge and in descend
ing the flight of steps leading to the
pavement from the second floor of Bucr's
Block, made a inistep near the bottom of
the stairway and fell headlong over the
two lower steps to the landing below. In
falling Mr. Colboru's knee struck with
great force upon the corner of the lower
step, fracturing the knee-cap entirely
across the front, and in other ways in
juring his leg. He also fell partly against
the door his head striking on the door.
Mr. Colborn was assisted to Ids home on
west Main street, and Dr. Brubaker
called in. He is now confined to bed with
the injuries hut is doing well in his pro
g '..*sij Una; ree ivcry.
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iiitercHtiK s*i vl- \ \, it .
Cliurcti i t ntor..:l S%-r
--vine* to Member* ||„, J l.xiil.
The Sixth Auiiuml Cm of the j
Cumbria County Woman's Christian Teni-1
perance Union was held in the I're-hv- '
terian Church, in Moi-rellville, b'-glnning !
on Monday and ending \esterdav evening,
Miss Foster, presided. A pleasant an I '
kindly address of welcome was delivered !
by Miss Id . Bask, of Morvcllvllh-, and the !
reports ot the Unions and 'superintendents'
were read by ilu- Secretary Miss Annie
Stewart. A eonferetiee v,;t.i held yester
day afternoon on t lie propose i Amend- ,
ments to State Constitution n,u also : -
au election of officers and dele ales. i
Mrs. Rev. McMasler conducted a one j
mortal service t-- Hie members of the '
different Unions lost on .May 51st. There j
were altogether twenty-nine, of whom |
Mr. Llviri Lay ton, Catharine S vank, '
Mary Cmlogwii, Margaret I ope, Klmiru !
Himt. Alexander Christy, June Me- j
Clelliind. ard Mis- Mary Purse, were of I
i the Centra! Union; two, Mrs. Knox and
Miss Holmes, of the South Side Union,
j colored; and n'ne. Misses Mamie Fink,
i Ella While, May Layton, Mary Tuiner,
; Jon'io Hum -. Maggie Harris. Josephine
! Gregg, who died since, of the Y. W. C.
T. U., together with Alessr • E. Vincent
Webber and Win. Humphrey-, honorary
membeis. A splendid lunch had been
prepared by the Morn 11 villi- ladies for
visiting members. The meeting was very
harmonious, oilly one man being present
and he left early
SI ,076.90.
Catholic Total Ali.tlnnnre ltollcf Tumi
DUtriißited in Johnstown.
Tlte total amount of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Relief Fund distributed by
Father Slieedy, First Vice President of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America to the Johnstown and Cambria
City T. A. B. Societies is *1 .07(1.90, of
this sum $169.70 wr.s given some weeks
ago to the Men's Society of Johnstown
and Cambria, and the balance, $91)7.20
was distributed yesterday by Father's
Sheedy and Canevin among the three
societies of this city. The Men's Society
of Johnstown and Cambria City eaelt re
ceiving $350, and St. John's Ladies'
Society of Johnstown, s2o7.2o. Altogether
there has boon distributed to members of
tiiesc societies here between twenty-three
and twenty-four hundred dollars.
.Wanly Men anil tlte Other Kim?.
There are several phases of humanity
we occasionally encounter—some of
which is commendable, and some highly
reprehensible. Men in knocking their
way through the world meet with various
kinds of treatment as a consequence of
these different phases. In edging our
course through and over the devious
paths of life, we have sometimes noted
some actions of men t hut have caused a
smile to Hit across our eouuterance so
well-defined and so broad tlmt the edges
of it can be seen by those walking be
hind us. While we loose not a jot or
titlu of respect for ft manly man,
who, when he sees us doing a foolish
tiling, walks squarely up tons, and blurts
out with an explosive adjective or two,
such as would not he in order in a Suu
day School room, tLat we are a fool, our
smile of derision broadens as above de
scribed. When a man, who persistently
says mean things about us to others,
salutes us pleasantly and hopes we are
prospering. Bah! deliver us from a dc.
ceitful man.
A Lar£t! llntiMt Moved.
Moving houses lias become quite a tuts
iness in this city since the llooii. Some
very difficult jobs have been undertaken
as houses were left in all conceivable
shapes. One of the hardest was the house
of Mr. J. T. Evans, Mine Inspector, it
was thrown on ils side, and beiug a lunge
house, measuring 26 feet in length, width
47 feet, and about 30 feet higli. Mr. J.
M. Irons, of the tirm of Wallace & Irons,
the firm that moved the Johnstown lock
up, was selected by Mr. Evans to move
his house. It was done so successfully
that the house after being set on it*
foundation is in better condition than
when .Mr. Irons look hold of it. This
gentleman understands his business so
well that every weak spot in the house
was closely watched, and all precautions
taken. Several persons condemned the
house as one that could not be moved.
It will soon be ready tor occupancy.
Sentenced.
The following persons wore sentenced
at Court on Saturday : William H. Laf
ferty, for bigamy, one year in the peni
tentiary; William Broderick, assault and
battery upon his father, thirty days in
county jail; William J. Farrell, obtain
ing goods under false pretenses, twenty
days in jail; Victor Lemaski, larceny, one
month in jail; Peter Lyon, malicious mis
chief, one week in jail; Mortis Knox and
William Johnson, for burning the stables
of John Ryan and Mrs. Kunkle, each two
years in the penitentiary; John Owens,
larceny, one week in jail.
Meeting of the State Relief Commission.
Secretary Kremcr. of the State Relief
Commission, was iu Pittsburgh yesterday
and held a conference with Evan Jones
in regard to the claim of Contractor
James McKnight. What was done at the
meeting is not known. A meeting of the
State Flood Commission will be held at
Harnshurg to-day, at which the claim of
the Pittsburgh Committee for $125,000
will be considered. Mr. Krcmer would
say nothing about the matter at issue be
tween the Governor and Mr. McCreery.
A Carpenter lladly Hurt.
Gkeexshuko, Pa., September 12.—A
carpenter named Michael Briney, of
Pleasant Unity, was using an ailzo yes
erday, and by a mis-stroke, the tool
,truck him on the left foot, almost sevur
cg that member.
TIIE LAND OF SILENT
I, A Hit A DOR ANV ITS MOST WOSDI K
FUI. HIS TORT.
An AlinuNt Unknown I.H nd tVli.ro Slfr.
tlity and LonellilCMK Supremo,
it, Two Division.—Tlte Story ot ilto
Old Iberian Ituce or Famed \avl
fgators.
Labrador proper, writes Edgar Wake
man in the Chicago "Inter-Oeea i.' is
that almost unknown land of unparalleled
sterility and loneliness lying between
Hie Gulf of St. Luwienee, the Atlantic
, ocean and Hint well n gh liniitle* inland
-en. Hudson's hay. 'That portion known
to
]we had set to look upon. ii.
, properly consists of twngi-Mul coastwise
I divisions. The waters ot the first tlowfrou,
j desolate solitudes into tiie St. I.awronee
and gulf, along the immeasurable county
! of tiaguorty, in the province of Quebec,
j ivhilo those of the other seek tho Atlun-
I tie to tho north of Belle Isle straits,
slung the graudest but most forbidding
-bores of any land, to whore Greenland
is bin a day's journey ahead of favoring
gales.
Un the one hand, ail along this fright
'ul coast, from the lofty toeks of tho
•mguenay, which stand like eternal sen
tinels of the fit. Lawrence, to tho bare
peaks beyoud the lu*; wretched hilt of
Hebron, the remotest of tho Moravian
missions in North America, the entire
.•oast-line is one intermiuutile reach and
record of human peril and suffering, of
'••g, iceberg uud tempest, and of wreck
■ml disaster inconceivable
Gn the other hand, behind this rugged
toast, there is but a waste so barren, so
nighty in its immeasurable solitude of
nn k anil stream and inland sea, so inde
eribably "tho laud given to Cain," as
. Id by Jacques Curlier in 1534, that only
lie imagination can traverse it to that
•v, fid, farthest north, whore silence sits
107.cn at the feet of God.
And yet there is more than fancy and
legend "in tho tales our captain told of
olden activities along these shores us we
dxhilarutingly swept these northern
waters. Tales weird *nd strange they
were; but tho warm blood of Basque
v. s- in his own veins and his eyes kiu
ued with tho wondrous histories of
iiusque adventures here 1,000 years ago
—histories which, could they he proven,
would compel Bancroft and Hundley to
■ cwrite all their early pages, and would
sadly dampen the enthusiasm for the
>ioposod Columbus celebration of 1802
briefly this Is how the story runs:
The old Iberian race—perhaps a race
i 009 years older thai, the Egyptian,
■i Inch cauio from somewhere and over
ran Europe from the Mediterranean to
die Archangel and Kara seas, and finally
succumbed "to other invasions, blending*
and assimilations—comprised a people
not only cultivated iu the arts, but those
which gave the world its first and great
est navigators and sea adventurers. All
coasts and climes were known to them.
I'he concentrated remnant of this mighty
people gave to the Basque provinoes and
Biittuny their interesting and spirited
tolk. From among UiO3C, more than
1,000 years hefote Columbus, assistod by
the wily though niggardly spirit of Span
ish conquest and domination, made the
new world subjective to the old, were
hose Iberian or Basque navigators, who
imd seen every rod of coust line from
Nova Zetnbla hey nd tho howling nnul
.bonis of Spitzbergon sea, around tho
arctic Spitsbergen groups, the far Ice
landic iiorths, past Greenland's 4,090
miles of ice and silence, tho eternal ice
peaks of Ellosnicre Land and Cumber
land island, down beyond the dreary
tea:!; of Labrador, all along the might',
distance* or St. Lawrence's gulf and
Newfoundland itself, pas! l'riuce En
aid's and Cupo Btoton islands i.i.u
Nova Scotia, to that dread mystery i..*'
graveyard of tho Sua, Sable island, where
dining all ti o&o centuries they had
chased the whale and taken tho mackerel
and cod. From sueli us these, huiuble
and unknown whalers and sailors, Col
umbus undoubtedly gained his positive
knowledge of America, and through i'
hi* immortality of fame.
*lt>nlill I,l.bar* of Austrian IVomen.
Ii is taken for granted generally tiiut
female suffrage would have llio effect
among others, of raising the status of
working women—forbidding the employ
ment of them inoccupations unworthy of
their sex. But thoro is a good deal "f
reason to think, if tho lady voters truth
fully represent the general feeling, they
may support what is called a retrograde
policy in this matter, says the "London
(standard." Female suffrage may pos*i
uly maintain llio view that women snould
not be debarred from any honest uud
healthy occupation upon sentimental
grounds. It nppoars from tho consular
reports I hat feminine labor becomes more
and more common in the Austrian mines,
while it diminishes iu the woolen manu
factories. Thoro was au increase of 809
bauds last year iu tho one, against a pro
portionate decrease in the other.
The women are engaged mostly in
hoisting shafts and in Hie pushing ol
ears. Though wages are low, they pre
fer this employment to domestic service,
because, as is surmised, they work only
eight hours, enjoying their liberty for
sixleon. But there are factory acts in
Austria. If this theory explains tho
preioreuce shown toward labor iu the
mines as against domestic service, it
fails to account for the 'i-iilclination to
ward factory labor. Women work at
foundries, stool works uud rolling mill*
also,and the inspectors admit that it does
not seem to injure them, hue feelings oi
the sex are everywhere alike, and if Aus
trian girls deliberately choose hard, man
ual labor rather than sedentary or "do
mestic" employment, wo may he sure
iheir English sisters will incline to the
same view when emancipated.
PhopUie*eent Ponelcr.,
Front some iutere-iiug observations on
phosphorescent potvdor* by E. Becquerol,
these results are summarized: 1, Sul
phui uud pure carbonate of calcium give
very slight phosphorescence. 2. Sul
phur unci pure carbonate of calcium plus
o. , to 1.5 percent, ot soda give brilliant
green phosphorescence. 3. Sulphur and
pure carbonate of calcium plus traces ol
manganese or bismuth give littlo or nc
dTosphoreacence. 4. Mixture as No. 3,
hut with one per cent, of soda, gives
strong yellow or blue phosphorescence.
5. Mixture as No. 1, plus traeosot' lithla.
1 gives intense green phosphorescence. 6.
Sulphur and oyster shells, etc., give red
phosphorescence. 7. Mixture as No. 1,
r plus traces of rubidium, gives ted phos
phore-cence. 8. Sulphur and pure car
-1 boiiatc of strontium give vory faint bluish
1 groon uhosphoreseence. Sulphur and
pure carbonate of strontium plus soda
give brlght.greeu phosphoresconoe. —Ex-
change.
Entomologists state that there is rea
sonable hope that a scientific plan will
' he devised whereby whole tribes of nox
' ions insects may be exterminated by Hit
artificial multiplication of their inuox
'ous enemies.
••uveas."
TbftPi fa certain Yankee phrase
I always have revered.
Yet. eomckow, in these modern day*
It's almost .1 aanpoared;
It was the usage years ago.
But nowadays it's got
To be regarded .coarse and low
To answer: "I guess uoti"
The height of fashion called the pltik
Affects the British erase—
pesters "i fancy" or' I thiuk"
To that time honored phrase
But here's t Yankee, if yiHl pleasd,
That br.<nda the fashion rot.
And to all heresies like these
lie answers:— "I —gness—notl"'
Wuon t.hstuer, Wjck :l <■:,! li e real
Kxpres itiielr meaning thus,
I guess if not the vu > best.
It's good enoU'h for usi
Wh. 1 sh'dl the id:oms of our speech
Be banished ami forgot *
For this vaiu trash wn-iii moterns teaoh*
Well, uo air. I guess not.
There's meaning in that hutnthy phrase
Mo ether words express -
No substitute therefor conveys .
touch uuobstrnslve stress.
True Anglo n. x. n speech, it goes
Liirc.ttiy to the s. ot.
And he who hea s :t always knows
' The worth of "I—guess-notl"
Eug he Field, in Chicago Newt.
at oxer ix i nr. tu/truisii.
upltialiats Tliiuk So unit Are Not Diss
iiiayed by Fullares in the I'nst.
11 event ropor'.b hivecome from arountl
ibOiit Quebec itl n •i . business enter
'lino for thy catching . the porpoise,
u it Miction ol tin' g>..i whore they are
or\ plentiful COIO.-MII nets mo to ho
.proud for their capture.
'the porpoise lui- been often caught
•more. Capitalist* have coiullod him iu
uuMtiUes while uisponiiiK himself neur
•Viuuington, Del., tor lustuiice. But to
nose sunic ta.'iluiisls he hus evei
■ roved much of a white elephant. Coin*
norcially, he hit-: been unsuccessful, and
i is pleading to note that he is solar
ippreciated today tiiat a band of tnon
neil men an' again to push him fortvurd.
i is a dilUculi tiling to liutl a porpoise
iittn now. In the hum no as world the
Kirpoise is out. But a li-.li oil man thus
■peaks of him:
••The catehing of the porpoise," lie
aid, "is something that has never paid.
iVhen dea'l h" is useful in certain ways,
•ui never suiliciently so. I nder his
kin is a luyer of fat—the blubber —
which is made into an ordinary lish oil,
mch as menhaden, selling at 25 cents a
adlon. The only really valuable oil
! bout him is within tho jawbone, That
ul is very line. It sells at from $3 to
i gallon', and, when carefully lelined,
••cry much higher. But, of course, per
mi poise there is a very small quantity of
.li.it. Of the ordinary oil about ten por
.oiseß are needed for a barrelfui. ft is
ised for the same purposes that other
ish oils are—lubricating, the curing of
i-ather and the lighting of mines. But,"
u' concluded, "the amount of porpoise
ul actually used is so small that we oil
lien never take it into consideration at
ill."
The porpoise's hide is regularly tanned
ot Loot and shoe use. It Is too wet and
• '.y a leather to become a material for
■ags, pocket hooks and tho like. But
ino strips for shoe-strings it has met
lili some favor. But otherwise it is
ml wanted. Decently a man who used
o be in the porpoise business said;
•Don't talk porpoi-e to me, sir; there i
mthing in them nowadays. Years ago
• e thought there was going to be, but
no. In my stock now 1 have several
.tiousand porpoise hides that I would lie
jlad to soli, but nobody wants them. If
Ids now company is going to capture
them by net it will have a job on its
muds. Tor the porpoise is a wriggler
and tho porpoise is very strong, and tl: t
act will have to bo made of the
.. do and tightly woven together. "
'I ho porpoise hero referred to is jusfc
Jio plain, ordinary porpoise, such as one
.iiay see even at times iu New York hay
itself. There is nnotherkind of porpm- •
know nas tlie'white whale' from twelve o
fourteen feet long, of a knlsomine white
loss from tip of tidl to head. But he is. .
xl.rfctly speaking, an Arctic porpoise, and
seldom, if ever, guts as far south a < lie
full of St. Lawrence. Tin ordinary
-pecios is but half the length, and ov. n
UA.H, of the "white whale."—N. Y. 1' il
tnd Express.
Anecdote* of tlio Pi tIM P of Wale*.
Stephen I'iske gives a reminiscence of
the Trinee of Wulos ami the St. Juines
theater, London. After tho p : foruiuuco
•jf "La Belle Savago" the prn e invited
Mrs. John Wood into the room reserved
for royalties. She went iu her Pocahou
'ns costume, attended by a retinue of
our Indians, and the prince, after coti
iraiuuiting her upon iier success, pre
sented her to his suite sis her Royal
Highness. tlio Piiueess from Virginia.
pon another occasion tho ezarowiteh—
iiow the czar—of Russia was asked
by the prince whether he remembered
Having been at the ft. James before.
•Oh, yes," said the ezarowiteh, and be
gan swaying back and forth and humming
:no air of "Dot Leetlo Woo Dog," look
. ig exactly like a huge Russian beur as
ae humped himself for this performance.
The Prlneoss of Wales went to tee
"Fernando" six times. One night sho
sent for the prince to enjoy !h end of l ho
third at. when Ill's. John Wood und
lire. Herman Voglu were on ih • stage
together. The prince wna just telling how
:ie had killed ustng in Scotland, lie had
the immense animal at bay; his gun was
at his shoulder, his Anger upon the trig
ger. But, Interrupted by tho message
of the princess, ho rose, threw away his
•igurette, left the stag unharmed, and
•roved himself as good a husband as her
.■as a hunter by going at once to tho
oyal box.—Spirit of the Times.
!,litest and longest Steaiu (engine.
The largest steam engine in tne world
a is that constructed for tho new Italian
cruiser hardegna. it really consists of
" tour triple expansion engines, which cuu
B :ic used together or separately, as de
|. -.rod, tho entire combination being ea
-8 uiiblo of developing a force of 22,000
t nominal or 25,000 actual horse power,
j The ship Is driven by twin screws ami
,1 two engines are connected to the slant
c of eaeli screw, but one screw can be
I stopped altogether if the vessel is to be
a turned around, or for ordinary sailing
i, one engine only may bo used for each
L screw; but, in case it should be neees
ij sary to increase the speed, the other en
(j gines can at once be connected and the
lull power exerted. As usual with navul
machinery, a large number of auxiliary
■. engines are used. On the Sardegnu
h there are no less than twenty compound
d auxiliary enginos for feeding ttieoboilers,
„ keeping up the draught and ko on. be
c. sides a great variety of single cyliifdor
inachiDos.— Exchange.
b in France an extensive series of invw
II tigations has led to the conclusion that
the sardines of commerce are young Ash
'* not. yet arrived at maturity, and us a
rule size is no clue to the state of da
v elopment.