Tannine Tetah.
A twtfcolnrl beautiful wild flower
trow tha OU World, now getting com
mon in .New England and Riving plena
nre to tha lovar of wild flower scenery,
li the bin retch, Vicin cruccn. I wn
rmrticolirty glad to see it come off it con
queror fca tattla with the well known
toack gram, which usually acta the
UoHatfc among other Tegotntion. It
beaally crowds out everything, and onr
tVnmnylvanift fanner regards it m one
of his worst enemies.
Oa the seacoanta of New England,
however, fhe yield of this griw is sim
ply eaormons, and the agriculturist em
ploy tt largely for hay. Its roots are
annoying to the more sonthern farmer,
as every little piece grows. It can never
be got rid of. Out here, where the
game field is mowed for an indefinite
number of years, it is of no consequence
bow the roots hold on. The more tena
ctaas the better. But It is snch a hold
warrior among vegetation that nothing
can grow where it grows, and a field of
coach grass looks more like a field of
Some right kind of wheat nnder a careful
farmer's hands.
Timothy grass here will not stand the
attacks. Battalions of weeds contest
the field with it. Conch grass alone
ends forth defiance. But the bine
retell is a masterpiece. It grows op
wifh tbe grass and at length overtops It,
and forms beantifnl bine patches over
the whole field, looking like bright
cervlean lakes over a gray arid plain.
Fortwnately the farmer does not mind,
M It is as agreeable to the cattle as the
grass. It is one of those rare instances
where great beauty and utility go band
in hand together, and striko up a truly
bappy marriage. Thomas Meehan in
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Chinese Cnlslne.
"In passing through Chinese towns,"
Mid the Rev. A. T. Wright, of Milwau
kee, to the writer, "the astonishingly
large number of cookshnps interests
and attracts the foreign passer by. One's
curiosity is often aroused to know the
ingredients of the messes he sees )eing
concocted. Those places are unpleas
antly pressed upon the pedestrian, for
the front is invariably open to the street,
and in order to tempt customers by the
sight and smell of viands the cook pre
pares his dishes over a charcoal fire in
full view, and sets samples of his ma
terials and his bill of fare out on a show
board before him. Tables and stools
are placed in the rear, and here the hun
gry may banquet.
"The Frenchman is not the only one
whe haa hi frogs' legs and snail soup,
for the Celestial, too, revels in these
dainties and many more stranger than
these. Snakes and eels alike know the
fryingpan, and when skinned and
dressed appear very much alike. Many
varieties of i on poisonous snakes are
need for food. Silkworm grubs are
regarded as a choice morsel and are
tewed in lard and eaten as a relish, and
a mnHitude of other insects are deemed
edible." Chicago Inter Ocean.
She INxrchMed Then.
Bhe wasn't exactly old, but the dis
criminating observer could see that she
hadn't seen the inside of a schoolroom
for at least ten years. The shopman
threw down piece after piece of fleecy
white material before her critical eyes,
but -none of them seemed to claim her
unreserved admiration. She was taking
a great deal of his time and the silk
counter was crowded, so he decided to
play his trump card.
Holding np a length of crepe de chine
CO that it fell in a perfect cataract of
shimmering folds, he remarked, reflec
tively, as if to himself alone, "The best
thing for graduating purposes we have
had in the store this year." The effect
was instantaneous, and in another min
ute the tactful salesman was measuring
off a full pattern for his well pleased
patron. Kate Field's Washington.
Old EngiUh Meadow.
Probably there are no meadows in the
world so good as those in England or so
old. Yet from the early Anglo-Saxon
times old meadow has been distinguished
from "pastures" and haa always been
scarce. Two-thirds of what is now es
tablished meadow land still shows the
marks of ridge and furrow, and from
the great time required to make a
meadow ten years at least on the best
land, a hundred on the worst men have
always been reluctant to break up old
paiitais.
The ancient meadows, with their great
trees aw close, rich turf, are the sole
portiea of the earth's surface which
modern agriculture respects and leaves
in peace. Hence the excellence of the
meadow of England and the envy of
the AiMrioan. London Spectator.
The Cat In Art.
TJbMI the present century the peculiar
dlffioahie offered by the struolnre and
, texiiusu of cats had hardly beon sur
mounted. When the old masters drew
a cat they made it solid and hard it is
probable that the varieties they knew
weTS less beautiful than those which we
now delight in but also there was a
conventional neglect of the furry char
acter of the surface. In painting a cat
now tha danger is in avoiding a false
solidity, to lose all sense of the osseous
forms in securing softness and light
ness. London Saturday Eeviow.
Cv'.leUtng the Parson.
A minister of the Gospel must be pre
pared to submit to all kinds of criticisms.
One "leading" member criticised the
minister for saying, "When Adam was
born," and remarked to a friend: "Any
man who will say, 'When Adam was
v born,' instead of 'When Adam was cre
ated,' is unfit for his position. I call
such a remark an egreg-rious blunder."
Christian Advocate.
Better Than Trees.
Mr. De Avnoo I don't see why Mrs,
Forundred should put on such airs over
Son. Our family trees are as good a
Br.
Mrs. De Avnoo Y-e-s, but her hus
band has the gout and you haven't.
New York Weekly.
BTAR TIME AND BUN TIMt
The War Astronomer Find Onl fret
the Star trhea It Is Noon.
The time for sending out the noon
signal from Washington is the instant
the sun crosses the seventy-fifth meri
dian. This, however, is not the sun
which gives as light and heat, bat an
invisible, imaginary onei because, fot
certain reasons, the true snn dee not
cross the meridian at the same moment
every day, bnt during one part of the
year he gets over it a little more ahead
of time each day, and during the othel
part he is correspondingly behind time:
and so this fictitious sun is used, be
cause its apparent path around the earth
brings it exactly over the same line at
the same moment every day. Now at
just what instant this snn crosses th
meridian is determined by means of thi
stars, for time at the observatory is not
reckoned by the sun but by the stars.
Every clear night an astronomer at tin
observatory looks through a large tele
scope for certain stars which he knowi
must cross a certain line at certain times,
and by the use of an electrical machinf
be makes a record of the time each stat
passes, as shown by a clock which keepi
sidereal or star time. He then consult!
a printed table, which shows him at jnsl
what time each star must have passed,
and by a much as this time differs from
that recorded by the clock the latter it
wrong, and In that way the sidereal
clock is regulated. This star time Is thee
reduced to sun time, which requires sonn
calculation, as there is a difference be
tween the two of about four minute
each day.
These two clocks the one keeping stai
time and the other sun time are of very
fine quality, and are as near perfection
as possible. Although they cannot heir,
being affected by changes of tempera
ture and different conditions of the at
mosphere, they very rarely are mor
than a fractional part of a second out ol
the way. No attempt is ever made tc
correct such errors, but they are care
fully noted and allowed for in making
calculations.
For the purpose of distributing time s
third clock, known as a transmitter, if
used. This is set to keep time by tin
seventy-fifth meridian and is regulated
by the standard clock before mentioned.
It is in all respects similar to the otbci
clocks, except that it has attached to it
an ingenious device by which an electric
circuit may be alternately opened and
closed with each beat of the pendulum.
Clifford Howard in Ladies' Home Jour
nal. A Cartons Cave.
The cave temple of Karli, India, it
rightly considered one of the greatest
wonders of the world. This gigantic
recess in the mountain ledge haa beet
chiseled by human hand, from porphyry
as hard as the hardest flint. The nav
is 124 feet long, 45 feet broad and 4(
feet from floor to ceiling. Before tin
entrance to the temple stands a monstel
stone elephant, upon whose back is seat
ed a colossal goddess, all hewed fromoni
solid block of stone. Like the tempi
walls and the outside ornaments, every
article of adorning sculpture oa the in
side is hewed from the native rock.
There are aisles on each side sep
arated from the nave by octagonal pil
lars of stone. The capital of each plllai
is crowned with two kneeling elephants,
on whose backs are seated two figures,
representing the divinities to whom tin
temple is dedicated. These figures an
perfect and of beautiful features, as in
deed are all the representations ol
deities and divinities in this peculiai
temple.
The repnlsiveness so characteristic ol
modern Hindoo and Chinese pagodas U
here wholly wanting. Each figure it
true to life, or rather to art, there be
ing no mythical half horse, half man 01
beast birds depicted in this underground
wonder of Karli. This wondrous under
ground pagoda or cave temple has beet
a standing puzzle for the learned ar
chaeologists of both Europe and Asa foi
the last 8,800 years, and is as much ol
an enigma today as it was in the time ol
Confucius. Philadelphia Press.
A Bibliophile Indeed.
A lady left some very precious first
editions of a book in three volumes in l
hansom while she went into a shop
risky thing in itself to do. When slu
came out of the shop she couldn't find
the hansom, which had beon made tc
move on by a policeman, and in despaii
took another, and just saved the train
which she had to catch at Charing
Cross. After waiting for an hour and
a half the cabman thought there wat
something queer going on and endeav
ored to find his fare, without success ol
course. Then he looked inside the cab,
saw the books and some parcels, and
conveyed them all to Scotland Yard.
And here comes the pith of the story.
The lady applied the following day fot
her precious books and got them. It
was suggested that she should pay a
certain quite adequate sum as recom
pense to the cabman. But the lady was
indignant. That sum, she averred, did
not in any degree represent the percent
age due on the enormous value of the
tomes. They were worth something
stupendous. She mentioned what Quar
itch valued them at. And quite cheer
fully she paid a sum that made a com
fortable nest egg for the cabman. She
also made the Scotland Yard official
understand something about books that
be hadn't a notion of before. London
Vanity Fair.
Why Be Was Retleent.
A. Sir, when we were introduced to
each other just now, why did you so per
sistently deny that we were acquainted?
We have often met before, only I can
not just remember where. I suppose
you are in business?
B. Yes as a pawnbroker.
Tableau! Exchange.
Grandpa's III; Effort.
"I suppose you're going to Dr. Mason's
funeral, grandpa?"
"Oh," snarled the Infirm old man,
"don't talk to me about other people's
funerals. It's as much as I shall be able
to do toet to nyr own." Exchange.
Adding Insult to Injury.
"Talk about adding Insult to Injury,"
said Luvrum, as with the aid of a hravy
cane he hobbled to his favorite seat in
the Rounders' club the other afternoon,
"something happened to me last night
that capped the climax in that direction
so far as my experience goes. I dined
some friends of mine from ont of town
last evening. They were old college
chums, yon know, and us we hod not
met for years we lingered long over the
table, and the loving enp was passed
steadily around until my friends had to
leave for a midnight train. It was s
very hot night. I was very much le
fuddled, and, as Is my custom on such
rare occasions, I turned my feet Turkish
bathward. I went down into the hot
room. A strong desiro came npon me to
jump Into the big cold plunge there
without waiting for the usual scrubbing
by the attendant.
"It has been my hnbit to forego the
nse of the stairs leading down Into the
plunge, and to simply get up on the
marble railing and fall off backward
into the cooling waters. So up on the
marble railing 1 stepped and threw my
self off. There was not a solitary drop
of water in that plunge. The attendants
had emptied it for the purpose of clean
ing it. Down I went full six feet, and
lnnded squarely on my back on the mar
ble bottom. No, I did not break iny
back and fracture my skull, though it is
a wonder that I did not.
"So much for the injury. Now let m
tell you alMiut the insult. As I lay there
on my back partially stunned an attend
ant came, and shaking me roughly by
the shoulder said, 'Say, if yon do that
again you will be put outP If I did it
again I would be put out) Wonder If
he thought I did it for fun?" New York
Times.
While Paper Not Wasted.
"There is no such thing as waste
paper," said the junk denier to a re
porter. "Hardly a scrap of white paper
is wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown
away is carefully gathered up and finds
its way eventually to the mill again to
be made over. The notebook in your
hand may furnish material for the pagee
on which you will write a letter six
months hence, and perhaps a year latet
you will nnknowlngly find it incorpo
rated in a summer novel with yellow
covers. Thus the stock of paper that
supplies the world is used over and over
again indefinitely through the medium
of the scavengers, the dealers in junk
and the factories, which are continually
engaged in transforming the discarded
material into fresh and clean sheets.
, "Brown paper, however, is different.
Because it is composed of nothing more
valuable than straw it is mostly thrown
away and never used again. I would
not pay you twenty-five cents for a ton
of it. A few years ago old newspaper!
were worth four cents a pound, leing
made of rags. Now they are manu
factured ont of wood pulp and straw,
and their market value is only a quartet
of a cent a pound. Office paer, such
as old bills and such scraps, are worth
the same price as newspapers, while
what we cll "office sweepings," com
posed largely of envelopes, are quoted
at fifteen cents a hundredweight."
Washington Star.
Kecentrle Will.
Eccentricity, and nothing else, distin
guishes the will proved in 1724 of Henry
Trigg, of Stonage, of the county of
Hertford, grocer, who directed that his
body should be committed to the west
end of his hovel, to be decently laid
there upon a floor erected by his execu
tors; and only sixty years ago, it is said,
the bones of Mr. Trigg still remained
nnbnried in the raftors at the west end
of his hovel aforesaid. A provision,
quite as bizarre, was made in the will of
the philosophic Jeremy Bentham, who
enjoined his executors to embalm his
corpse and dress it in the clothes which
he was accustomed to wear in his life
time, in order that he might form the
text of a lecture to be delivered annu
ally at a literary institute held at a
school of anatomy in Windmill street,
Haymarket.
On the occasion of one of the lectures
in Jeremy Bentham's mummy the ven
erable philosopher's head fell off and
came to irremediable grief, whereupon
an artificial head was modeled in wax
by Miss Margaret Gillies, the distin
guished miniature painter, but the
mummy with the waxen head has long
since fuded out of the public ken. Lon
don Telegraph.
Savin Hie Father's Hair.
Lord Charles was often troubled by
Importunate acquaintances, who begged
for some of his father's (the Duk of
Wellington) hair. On such occasions he
mid to an old servant, whose hair was
like the duke's, "Sit down, John; I must
sut off another lock I" Fortnightly Re
gno Uot Even.
A certain broker had been teasing his
wife about some of her housekeeping
arithmetic, and yesterday she got her
revenge.
"What time is it?" be asked her after
lunch. She took out her purse and held
np a half crown without a word. He
stared, scratched his bead and finally
gave it up.
"Anybody who is up in figures," she
remarked sweetly, "would at once have
understand that I meant half past
London Tit-Bits.
The Passion Flower.
The passion flower derives its name
from an idea that all the instruments of
Christ's passion are represented vis.,
the five wounds, the column or pillar of
scourging, besides the three nails, the
crown of thorns, etc. Most of tha pas
sion flowers are natives of the hottest
parts of America. London Tit-Bits.
When it was proposed to build the
Central Paoifio railroad, a civil engineer
of twenty-five years' experience reported
that the road could not be completed in
twenty years with all the money of the
Bank of England to back the enterprise.
But it was built and completed seven
years before the expiration of the time
Axed by eongTwa.
A Miser's ffeepltallt.
Sir Harvey Elwes, of Stoke, ia Suffolk,
next to hoarding money, found his prin
cipal pleasure In netting partridges. H
and his honsebold, consisting of one man
and two maids, lived npon these. In cold
or wet weather Sir Harvey wonld walk
np and down his hall to save firs. Hit
clothes cost him nothing, for he ran
sacked old chests and wardrobes and
wore those of his ancestors. When h
died the only tear shed was by his serv
ant, to whom hn left the farm value,
fifty ponnds per annnm.
The whole of his property was left to
his nephew, John Maggntt, who thus in
herited real and personal estate worth
250,000, on condition that he should as
sume the name and arms of Elwes. Ol
this man, who is better known as John
Elwes, the miser, the following story It
told: His nephew, Colonel Timma, vis
ited him at Marchnm, and after retiring
to rest found himself wet through. Find
ing that the rain was dripping through
the ceiling, he moved tho lied. He had
not lain long before the same Inconven
ience again occurred. Agnin he rose and
Miritin the rain rnme down. After push
ing the bed quite around the room, he
found a corner where the ceiling was
better secured and slept nntil morning.
When lie met his uncle at breakfast he
told him what had hsppennd. "Aye,
nye," said Mr. Elwes; "I don't mind It
myself, bnt to those who do, that's a nice
corner in the rain." Cussell's Journal.
Warren's Idea of lTlnt
Warren, aged four yesrs, had formed
his ideas of angels and I heir forms from
the study of certain steel engravings,
and Uld his mother If she scolded him
KKniii he would "die nnd go right to
heaven." Being told that that was
eiffrr said than done, nnd nsked how he
would get there, ho answered without
hcxitHtion: "Oh, I would pile np all the
fhiiint and tables nnd boxes nnd ladders
as fur as they would go. nnd then 1
'spect an angel would come down and
det me. And anyway I'd a good deal
rather go that way than have things
screwed into me!" New York Trib-.ine.
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Gitu Meat, Market
I buy lit! best of c:i1tlo nnd
keep tlit! choicest kinda
oi" meats, such as
MUTTON, VOUK
VEAL, AND
BEEF, SAUSAGE.
Everything kept neat and
clean, Your patronage
solicited.
E. J. Schultze, Prop'r.
KNOW ME BY MY WORKS
I have removed 24Huno worm In tho lust
40 months, unci run show more cures of
Catarrh. I'nm-i-r. ticroftilu. kt-zema Hint sll
blood dlHOHHt-tt than all others. 1 treat through
the blood Willi Nature's remvdliM, roots null
herbs. Nyelem ltenuvalor, tlie Wonder
of lite W orld, (or mile at all (irtiK stores.
Unfit. It la making the patent nit-dlilne men
look sick Hiul the grave yarda irreun. Hnnd
stamp for circulars and Information. Uttice
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In a first clasp family journal, published every
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pubscription price is but 1.50 a year in advance.
The job department is replete with the latept
designs in type, and Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Kill Ileadp, Statements, Envelopes, Posters, Circu
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It Antrhlnnr fhnm oil
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Fancy and Staple
GROCERIES,
Oil, Flour! Feed.
An elegant line con
sisting of sour, sweet
and mixed pickles.
Onions, chow chow,
olives, cauliflowers
and others too numer
ous to mention.
f An endless variety on
w
Wo
hand; always fresh.
Try our fruit and
chocolate cakes.
"Washburne's Kest"
leads the list; it's a
dandy. Try it. We
have in stock, "Our
Kest," "Straight,"
"Imperial," "N. W.
Patent," "Pilgrim"
and others.
We have no oil wagon
on the road but we
deliver you a 5 gal.
best 150 oil for 50
cents. Get our rates
on oil by the barrel.
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A FULL STOCK of yowl in our
line dlway on hand. Jliyhest
market prh-e paid for country
produce.
' goods received '
daily. :
XO OLD GOODS
FOR SALE.
McKec & Warnick,
The Grocers,
Cor. Oth and Main St., . .
. Reynoiditvllle, I'enna.
lb UUbdlllllbd bllOIII Qll.
ft ArTT""""
I want to close out my sum
mer goods to make room
for fall stock, and
will sell
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At COST!
Outing Cloth, 6J cents,
Sold before for 8 cents.
Outing Cloth, 8 cents,
Sold before for 10 cents.
Outing Cloth 12 cents,
Sold before for 12 i cents.
Challie, 10 cents,
Sold before for 12 i cents.
Challie, 10 cents,
Sold before for 15 cents.
Sateen, 10 cents,
Sold before for 15 cents.
Indigo Rlue prints
6 cents per yard.
Men's Seersucker Coat
and Vest at 65 cents,
Sold before for $1.00.
Men's and Koys'
Outing Shirts
At 19 cents apiece.
Men's suits at 3.60,
Sold before for $5.00.
All Men's suits reduced
From $2.00 to
$3.00 per suit.
Children's
Suits $i.oo
Now is your time to save
money. These goods are all
new.
N.Hanau.
Gooods