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VOLUME 2.
REYXOLDSVILLE, PKNiYA., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 1893.
NUMBER 13.
1
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BUKPAIA KOTHKSTKK A PITTH
HL'KGH HA1LWAY.
Th short lino la-twm-n IIiiIIiiK. Uldttwny.
Bradford, Hulainivara, HiiITiiIo, lto-lieter.
Nlinriira r'nll and pnlnta In the upper oil
region.
Hn nnrt lift or .Tune 4tli, 11, pnsspn
gertrnlimwlll arrive mid depart from 1'iiIIk
I 'rook Million, daJIyi exrept fumliiy, an fol
low!: 7iO0 A. M . Wnilford Ai'ooniniiMlntlnn For
Eilnt North In-twoon I'lill- I'rrek nnil
radfia-d. 7:1-1 u. iu. nitwd tniln for
IMitiXKUliiwnov.
10:0sA.M. Miiiralnanri Rorhfti-r mull- Kor
llrorkarnvvim, lldtriiy..MinoiilMii-ii-.lt.
.Towott, Hradfnrd.Hnlaniniii'a. Buffalo and
Ko-hetT-, onnnot'tliiK nt JohnwmlMirn
with I'. & E. I in In it, for Wilcox, Horn.,
Warren, iiorrv and Krto.
10: A. M. wnitiiiHliit1o-r"or PllBMa,
S.vki'M, Umtoiin and I'liiixiaitawTioy,
1:90 1'. M.- Bradford Aivonnnoliillon-For
Hooohtrm, Brockwavvlll, Kllniont, far
mon, Klileway, loliiiaoiihur?. Mt. Jowtt
mid BriidiWd.
8:10 I. M.-M.all For IiinVK Hyko, 111
Itun.l'iinMuiJiwney and Valtm.
8t1H P.M. A"nmmfiition- l'or IhillolN.nig
Hun and I'mmmitawnoy.
fttktO A. M. fnnulny train For Bmckway-
villo, Kltlirway and .loiiiiionhiirir.
il B.M. Hiniihiy tniln For ImiBoIs, flykea,
Hid Hun mid llinxniilawney.
ThouMind Billo tk-keta at two cent per
mile, f""d for pitxMiifo iH-twwnall attttlnna.
J. H. McIhtvhn, Atfviit, FiillMorook, I'a,
J. II. llAiiiirrr. K. ('. l,i'KY,'
Clcnornl Sunt. (Ion. I'm. Airont
Bradford I'a. Kia-hnVr N.V.
ALLEGHENY VALLKY RAILWAY
COMPANY commencing Sunday
June IN, 1WI2. Lowltrado Diviwion.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD..
IN EFFECT MAY 21, 1811.1.
I'hlladolphla V Erie Kiillroad DlrlHlimTlme
Tulilu. Trulim Ii'hvo Driftwood.
EASTWAHD
9:04 A M Train 8, dully oxcopt Hnndiiy for
Hiiuhury, llarriHhurir and Intormodlatt hIii
tioiiN, iirriviuit at I'hlliidolphlii li:MI p. M.,
Now York, V:liA I', m.i Kultimoro, H:4A p. M.
WaKlilnitliin, 8:IA p. H. i'ulliiian I'arlor our
from WIllluniHport and piiHaoiiKor conolioa
from Kimo to I'lilladolphlii.
:;! I'. M. Train tt, dully oxcopt Hundny for
llnrriHlnirir and Intorniodlato HtiilloiiM. ar
rlvhm at l lilhidolphla 4:311 A. M.; Now York,
7:10 A. H. Throtmli coach from IMiIIoIh to
VilliumHiort. I'uliuiun Hloopluir cura from
llarriKltiit-K to Philadelphia and Now York,
l'lilludnlplilii imNHcuifcrH can romaiit in
Nloopor undiHturlMMl until 7:00 A. M.
(l:iiA 1'. M. Tniln 4, dully for Hunhury, HnrrlH
huri: und Intormedluto atatioim, arrivinir at
I'lilladolphlii, ll:A0 A. li.; Now York, 11:110
A. M.; Hull Imoni, 11:20 A. H.; WimhliiKton, 7:110
A.M. I'ullnian can and piiMMcmror coachia
from Eric and WilllumNMintii I'lilladolphlii.
l'jitr4cntrcrH In alooMr for llulltmoro and
WuHliinitton will 1m trannforrud lino WiiHti
liiglou aluopor lit lliirrlhlpiii.
WEW'l'WAKD
7::i5 A. M. Train 1, dully oxcopt Hmiday for
Klduwny, liultoia, ('lormoiit mid inter
mediate million. 1,1'iivuh Kldiiwuy ut 11:00
P. M. for Erie.
9:30 A. M.--Trti(ti il, daily fur Erie and inter
medin to poliita.
8:27 V. M. Train 11, dully except Sunday for
Kane and intermodliiteatutioiiH.
TUUOI'I.II TKA1NS Foil DRIFTWOOD
FllOM THE EAST AND SOUTH.
TRAIN 11 leuveH l'lilladoliilita H:A0 A. m.
WiihlilnKUui, 7.A0A. M.; llultlmoru, 8:4S A. M.
Wilkoaliurre, 111:1.1a.m.; dully except Sun
day, urrlvluK at Drift wood at 11:27 P. M. Willi
I'ullnian I'arlor ear from I'liiladulplilH to
WlllluniKMiit.
TRAIN a lcuveaNow York at. 8 p. ni.: IM1II11
delphla, 11:20 p. 111. 1 WiiHliliiKton, 111.40 a. m.i
lliiltlniore, 11:40 p. m.; dully arriving at
Driftwiaid at U:A() a. m. I'ulltnuii Klotiiliif
ciira from l'lilludolnhlu tu Erie and from
Wiishliuilon and llalliiiiore to WlllluniHHirt
and tiimiiKh paaMMiior coachea f roni I'lilia
delphia to Erie and llultimuru to Wlllluina-
IHirt and to Dullola.
IAIN I louvoN Hdiiovo ut H:ai a. m dally
except HiinUuy, arriving at Driftwood 7:JS
a. ni.
JOHNSONBURG RAILROAD.
(Daily excopt Hunduy.)
TRAIN lfl leaves RldKway at 11:40 a. m.i J11I111
Miiiliiirn at U:.Vu. 111,, arriviuK at lUuriuuut
at ln:4."i a. m.
TRAIN 20 leaven Clermont at 10:5.1 u. m. lir
rlvluir at JoluiHonliurK at 11:40 a. m. und
Uidiiway at 11:03 a. 111.
. JJIDGWAY & CLEARFIELD R. R.
DAILY EYCEPT SUNDAY.
BOT1TI1WARI). NORTHWARD.
P.M A.M.
STATIONS.
A.M. P.M.
HTii 94(1 RldKway TST
12 IH 9 48 iHlaud Run 1 20
12 22 II A2 Mill llavoii 1 III
12IU 1002 Croylund - KM
l'ilta III 10 HhortHMillH 12 All
1A42 10 1,1 muoKock 12 A4
12 44 10 17 Vineyard Run 12 .12
12 4M 20 20 Currier 12 AO
100 1082 Brockwayvllln 12IIN
110 1042 McMliih Summit 12 30
1 14 1048 HurveyK Hun VI M
11 10 M FallH (iruuk 12 20
143 1103 DiiUola 12 03
TRAINS LEAVE RIDGWAY.
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Traill II, 1:4A p. ill. Truiu 1, ii:l) u.
Train 4, 7 :H p.m. Train U, 8:26 p,
m,
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8 M, PREVOST,
Gun. Manager.
J. It. WOOD,
Guu. Piu. Ag't.
THE HERMIT THRUSH.
Ovfr the tops of th trrrm
And over the Mini low stirum
Th ihenherd of sunnct frees
Th mlwr phantom of rlrrara.
Th time in the time of vUion;
The hotir In the hour of calm,
llnrk! On the ulillneM Klj sitin
Ilrnke how divine a pnliul
Oh, clear In the flphcre of the atl
Clear, clear, tvnriVr anil far
Onr aspiration of prayer
Unto eve's clear atiu'l
O fllnger senpite, sec arc.
From thy throat of silver and deir
What transport lonrly and pure,
Vnchanfflntr, rndlrssly niw
An unreracmbrance of mirth
And a contemplation of tears,
As if the musliitf of earth
Commnned with the dreams of the years'
Oh, clear In the sphere of the air.
Clear, clear, tender and far.
Our aspiration of prayer
Unto eve's clear star!
O cloistral ecstatic, thy call
In the cool, green aisles of the leaves
Is the shrine of a power by whose spell
Whoso henrs aspires and be II eves I
O hermit of evening;, thine hour
Is the aacratnent of desire,
When love hath a heavenller flower
And passion a holler Are I
Oh, rlear In the sphere of the air.
Clear, clear, tender and far.
Our aspiration of prarer
Unto eve'a clear start
O. G. D. Roberts In Youth's Companion
STRANGE SOUNDS.
GUNS OF BURRISAUL AND OTHER
MYSTIFYING PHENOMENA.
KoUea Made by Natural Caaien For Whlrh
No Explanation If aa Kver lloon Found.
Faranna Sound In Various Farta of tha
F.arth Hav Reared Many.
Of atrntifre lotinda which probably de
pend on metporologicnl or other natural
causes, one of the most remarkable has
long been known as "the guns of Dur
riBaul," bat though its causes have long
been debated no accurate explanation
has been given, so fur as we are aware,
that is thoroughly satisfactory. The
Sunderbunds as the delta of the Ganges
in native dialect is called is covered
with a vast and luxuriant jnnglo of
marshy vegetation. One of the stations
is named Burrisaul. From here, in the
rainy season, have long been heard mys
terious sounds resembling the discharge
of artillery, and therefore popularly
named "the guns of Bnrrisaul."
Only heard in the rainy season and
from the southward, they have been
heard 100 miles off, yet on the coast it
self they appear still farther south. The
sounds resemble the booming of cannon.
Mussulman and Hindoo superstitions
have each associated the sounds with
their religions traditions. Others have
thought thosoumU were produced by the
breaking of the sea on an island in the
bay of Bengal. But where? That some
atmospheric or meteorological cause is
the explanation is all that can be said
after hearing all arguments.
A much humbler yet ancient instance
of great local interest used to exist, we
believe, at Baddeley, in the New forest,
in the shape of a groaning tree. Whether
it still lives and groans we are uncer
tain, but it is said to have uttered mys
terious and lugubrious sounds at certain
times, probably dependent on wind or
weather, but full of omen and import to
past generations. Indeed in the various
mysteries which, despite fin de siecle
acuteuess, still surround us, eerie noises
have always played a most conspicuous
part, whether out of doors or within
ancient houses. Instances of the hitter,
indeed, abound. Some of the most thrill
ing of inexplicable ghost stories turn
not on anything which has appalled the
eyes, but has "distilled horror" through
the ears. It is, we believe, in East An
glio that the shrieks heard from time to
time round certain pits have long been
tradition in which a female phantom
has part.
The "drummer of Tcdworth's" phan
tom sounds are so well known from
Aubrey and more modern doscribers as
only to need allusion, but we may here
say that, according to a communication
in a popular periodical some few year
back, similar sounds had recently, com
paratively speaking, been heard in the
locality, and by people of most practical
disposition. These may be called phan
torn sounds. Returning again to those
which hover on the bordor line between
the natural and inexplicable, there is tli
wild strain as of weird music which has
been heard aboard ships when getting
within the circle of a Mozambique cy
clone. One of the same kind, formerly mys
terious and thrilling enongh, has been
resolved into a natural one. Early trav
elers through the primeval forests of
Brazil still among the few unexplored
pluces of the globe were astonished and
awed to hear the distant resonant sound
of a bell pealing from the depths of the
woods, which certainly had no building
and for ages had known no human foot
Btcp. Many a legend was woven round
the strange sound. Ultimately it was
discovered to be the note of the bell bird.
There are, however, few mysterious
sounds wliich have been as satisfactorily
explained as this, For instance, there is
the legend of the sounds heard at times
on the plains of Marathon, the clash of
weapons, the snorting of horses, the
"shouting of the slayers and screeching
of the slain," which recall to memory
the famons battle that lives so much
more vividly than many modern ones in
the history of the world. Of course
there are many instances of sounds
which, at first mysterious, become so re
ally from the distance over which they
traveled, but these must be distinguished
from those which are our theme,
One of the most Interesting examples
rests on the authority of the late Sir Ed
mund Head, who rememltered when a
boy going to church on the famous
"Waterloo Sunday," June 18, 1815, ot
Hytbn, in Kent. His father and he, on
arriving at the church at 11 a. in., found
to their surprise the congregation out
side listening intently to the fnint sound
as of distant cannon coming from the
east. Afterward it was ascertained that
Napoleon having, on the (for him) un
fortunate advice of bis artillery officers,
who pleaded the state of the ground,
waited till 11 to commence his fire, the
first French gun was fired astheNivelles
church clock struck II. Nor was Hythe
the only place where the French cannon
were heard in England.
Here, however, la fact dependent on
the by no means remarkable axiom that
sound under certain conditions travels
enormous distances. But the sounds o(
which we speak for the most part have
ptizzled all who have attempted to ex
plain them and lie indeed In that vngtie
region which Is inexplicable. Such is the
sound of the "Airllb drum," such are the
wailing of the bnnshee in some parts of
Ireland. New York Post.
Kot Conflnad tv One City.
I (tin something of a kicker myself,
bat I take off my hat to the nervous in
dividual who halted me on the street
yesterday with:
"Say! Louisville is a healthy, hand
some city of beautiful homes, lovely
women, bravo men, fine horses and good
whisky, bnt in no other city half or one
fonrth its size in the universe are so
many nuisances permitted as in this one.
Just think that the citizens are aroused
from their beds iu the early hours of the
morning when sloop is sweetest, victims
of sickness and disease are disturbed al
most in the very arms of death, and all
day long people in the streets are in dan
ger feeling the drums of their ears burst,
and not an effort made to put a stop to
the pandemonium of unearthly noises in
our streets. The charcoal man's Co
manche yells, the stale vegetable, fever
producing peddler's howls, the parrot
tongued peddler of no-account bananas,
the er-rags ol' Ton collector, secondhand
fruit distributers, big bells in advertising
wagons, milk bells, scissors grinders'
bells all adding to one common bedlam
of unending noises upon our principal
business and residence streets. The sick
are disturlied, the healthy annoyed, and
yet day after day wo never make an at
tempt to protect our right to live in
peace." Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Woman anil the Ron,
. A traveler stopped nt a little cabin in
the Georgia woods. Ho wore a white
rose on his coat one that a little girl
had plucked and pinned there as he was
leaving home,
A woman entered the cabin. She stood
and gazed at the roso a moment. Then,
darting forward, she tore it from the
stranger's coat and stamped it on the
rude floor.
"Why did you do that?" asked the
stranger leaping to his feet.
"Hush!" said a man who was sitting
near. "That's my wife, an an she
ain't right here" tapping his forehead.
"We had a little girl once, with blue
eyes an hair like a sunset. She wan
dered off among the roses one day lost,
lost! an when we found her she was
where the roses grow, an they was creep
in over her. An the wife there went
mad, an now she says the roses stole the
child an hid her away from ns forever,
an she goes about an tramples them
just like she did the rose there on the
floor!" New York Rocorder.
Jt'ebnohadnenar's Dooritep.
In the Egyptian and Assyrian' gallery
of the British museum and in close con
tinuity to the Hittite monuments and
the bronze gates of Shalmanezar may be
seen an object of more than ordinary in
terest a very common looking bronze
doorstep from the great temple of E-Log-gil
at Borsippa, a suburb of Babylon.
This doorstep, ordinary as it appears, is
of great historical value, as it not only
has the name of King Nebuchadnezzar
inscribed upon it, but also mentions bis
restoration to health and power. It is
no doubt a native offering and an ob
ject of great antiquity. Philadelphia
Press.
Exnrewlva Nickname.
They have a ruge for nicknames down
at Murblehead. There are so many of
them thut now a directory is seriously
under consideration. A veteran boat
man whose nether limbs describe almost
a circle Is given the euphonious appella
tive of "Ice Tongs," and answers to it
now among his friends congenial as read
ily as to his own family patronymic
Another townsman walking stiffly along
the winding streets with both arms
banging straight down before him Is
hailed as "Half Past Six," both hands
down, you know. Boston Journal
In Dr. Nun sen's five years drift across
the arctio regions he takes with him a
stove which at a cost of 4 cents will
cook as lurge a dinner as any party of 20
could eat A supply of paraffin costing
this amount will produce an excellently
cooked salmon, leg o'f mutton, vegeta
bles and tarts.
An electric alarm bell for use on trains,
tosupersede the unsatisfactory cord com
munication, has been successfully tried
In Scotland. In addition to serving as
an alarm, it can be used for starting
trains.
Over the arable areas of Wyoming tha
rainfall averages 13 inches. It is heav
iest in spring and summer, though a
month bos never been known to pass
without any precipitations whatever.
THREE ON A BENCH.
TTie Boy Had a Future, the Crank a Faati
the Vft(rant Mad Nothing.
It was 8 o'clock in the morning. The
electric lights were still blazing in the
silence of Madison square. A number
of shabby figures sIuihIhtwI or moved
about on the seats beneath the trees of
the park. On a bench beside the little
fountain sat a group that arrested my
attention. Three figures were reclining
here with their heads and shoulders al
most touching one another. One -was
but little more than a boy. A bundle
done up in a calico handkerchief was in
his hand, His sunburned face and his
sturdy shoulders gave evidence that he
was from the country probably a farm
hand who had trudged in to try his lurk
in the city. His boots were covered with
red clay. He was leaning against a thin
figure clad in somewhat shabby gar
ments. This man possessed a dark and sinister
countenance. He was restless, and his
hands, which were thin and white,
twitched nervously in his sleep.
His lips moved spasmodically. His
was an evil conscience. There waa
plainly a shady side to his past Ufa
Here were deceit and honesty side by
side. Next to the dark man slumbered
a very old and decrepit one. He was
clad in a linen duster. A battered gray
hat sat on his head, and his toes were
peeping out from the tips of his worn
shoes. The face of this old fellow was
seamed with deep and careworn wrin
kles. His hair and beard were snowy
white. He was possessed of a palsy
that made him tremble constantly as he
lay dozing. It waa youth, manhood and
old age typical of life.
These three reclined here in a stolen
sleep. A park policeman came gliding
along from the distance through the twi
light of the trees. He crept along like a
gray ghost on the lookout for those
weary souls who were transgressing the
law by surreptitious slumber. His eye
lighted with satisfaction as he beheld
the three figures on the bench. "You see
that seedy fellow in the middle?" he
whispered. "That's Tony McElroy, who
cracked three safes over in Jersey City
last summer. I spotted him at once by
his mug. He just come out of the pen
last Tuesday."
The officer seized the crook by the col
lar and shook him till his teeth rattled.
The noise awakened the boy, who grasped
the situation at once. Seizing his bun
dle he eknrried like a rabbit across the
grass toward Twenty-third street Once
feeling himself safe ho stretched his
limbs and began to whistle cheerfully.
The crook arose and stood in sullen
silence a few moments until the police
man pushed hiinon. Ho thrust his hands
into his pockets, humped up his shoul
ders and shntnbled up the avenue. The
old vagrant tottered to his feet He was
dazed, and it took him quite awhile to
collect bis senses. He shuffled across
the square with bowed head. He scanned
the buildings and the streets about him
with a hopeless, helpless glance that was
pathetio to see. Then he, too, vanished
in the gray of breaking dawn.
The boy had a life of hope before him,
the crook had a past behind him, bnt the
old vagrant hod neither past nor future.
New York Recorder.
A Lea-end About Lacemaklng.
Lacomaking is by no means so old an
industry as most persons suppose. There
is no proof that it existed previously to
the fifteenth century, and the oldest
known painting in which it appears is a
portrait of a lady in the academy at
Venice, painted by Caspaccio, who died
about 1128. The legend concerning the
origin of the art is as follows: A young
fisherman of the Adriatic was betrothed
to a young and beautiful girl of one of
the isles of the lagoon. Industrious as
she was beautiful, the girl made a new
net for her lover, who took it with him
on board his boat The first time he cast
it into the sea he dragged therefrom an
exquisite petrified wrack grass which he
hastened to present to bis fiancee. But
war breaking out the fisherman waa
pressed Into the service of the Venetian
navy. The poor girl wept at the depar
ture of her lover and contemplated his
last gift to her. But while absorbed in
following the intricate tracery of the
wrack grass she began to twist and plait
the threads weighted with small beads
which hung around her net Little by
little she wrought an imitation of the
petrification, and thus was created the
bobbin lace. Washington Star.
The ShIUelah.
The shillelah is not a mere stick
picked np for a few pence or cut casual
ly out of the common hedge. Like the
Arab mare, its grows to maturity under
the fostering core of its owner.
The shillelah, like the poet, is born,
not made. Like the poet, too, it is a
choice plant, and its growth Is slow.
Among 10,000 blackthorn shoots, per
haps not more than one is destined to be
come famous, but one of the 10,000 ap
pears of singular fitness. As soon as
discovered it is marked and dedicated
for future service. Everything that
might binder its development is removed,
and any offshoot of the main stem is
skillfully cut off. With constant care it
grows thick and strong upon a bulbous
root that can be shaped into a handle.
McClure's Magazine.
Only On Tim, Mora.
Ho I've asked you three times to
marry me, How many more times do
you want me to ask you?
She (tenderly) Only once, and let that
once be 60 yean hence. Detroit Free
Press.
The legendary Adam and Ere.
To the Scriptural account of the crea
tion and fall of Adam and Eve the Jewish
writers of the Talmud have added many
curious particulars. According to theso
tnythmnngers, Adam, when first created,
was a "giant of giants," ns fnrns statnro
goes, his head reaching into tho heavens
and his countenance outshining the sun
in all its splendor. In one place they
tell ns that "the very angels stood in
awe of the man which God had created,
and all creatures hastened to worship
him." Then the Lord, in order to give
the angels some idea of his power, caused
a deep sleep to come over Adam, and
while he was in a comatose condition re
moved a portion of every limb and bone!
The first man thus lost a part of his co
lossal stature, yet he remained perfect
and complete. Next, the first "help
meet" for the lord of creation was cre
ated in the person of Lilith, who forsook
Adam to become the "mistress of the
air and the mother of demons,"
After the departure of Lilith, Eve was
created and married to Adam in tho
presence of Jehovah and the angels, the
sun, moon and stars dancing together to
the angelio music rendered. Then tho
supreme happiness of the human pair
excited the envy of even the angels, and
the seraph Siunmael tempted them and
finally succeeded in bringing about their
fall from innocence, Adam lived as a
penitent on the very ground now occu
pied by the temple at Mecca, and Eve in
a cave on the side of Mount Ararat,
where, after a lapse of 200 years, she
was rejoined to Adam, St. Louis Re
public, LoeuiU Devouring- I.ociiiU.
In the summer of 1883, in which the
excessive heat and drought had brought
about the nearly entire disappearance of
vegetation in a good part of the country
and more particularly in the broken
country of Iianda Oriental, I had occa
sion to make a journey from San Jose to
Mercedes. At one place, Las Piedras,
At which tho diligence stopped, I noticed
great numbers of locusts of the species
Pezotettix vittiger, Pezotettix maculi
pennis and Pezotettix arrogans, which
covered the ground and rocks.
My attention was attracted by tho
fact of seeing around one locust a num
ber of other individuals of the same spe
cies, which were eating its soft parts
even whilo it was yet alive and protest
ing vigorously. I saw different attacks,
in which the conquerors, two or three at
a time, got hold of the weaker members
of their own kind, throwing them over
and opening the abdomen in order in
devour the entrails, these being the soft-'
er and more savory portions, since they
still contained some of the vegetable
food. Cannibalism here appeared in its
lowest development, and the numerous
remains of those which had been eaten
bore witness to the extent to which the
process had been carried.
In tho fuce of facts ot this character,
it seems certain that nothing is sacred
in nature when the prolongation of life,
for the sake of tho preservation of the
species, is concerned. Curl Berg in Nat
ural Science.
The Power of tho Tongue.
Go with mo to the halls of Yale and
listen to Chatincey M. Depow speak with
clean cut phrases of wiadom, salted with
sentences of wit. Como back to the city
and find him delivering an oration on
the Centennial in the presence, of a vast
ninltitndo of witnesses, tone and style
and manner and figures totally different.
See him at the dinner of the New York
Press club, where 1100 bright witted,
clever beaded, nimblo fingered, honext
hearted men applaud to the echo his per
tinent, his suggestive, his eloquent sen
tences. Jump thence to the superb
Auditorium in Chicago, where 13,000
yellersand shoutersand footers surround
the 400 or 600 delegates assembled there
to nominate a presidential candidate.
See how they listen. Watch as they
applaud. Tell me that Chaunccy M. De
pew, bright, clever, experienced as he
is, could be tho force, tho factor in af
fairs, tho distributer of ideas he is with
out what St. James would call an un
ruly evil! The fact is, a tongue, like ev
erything else, has its upper and lower,
its good and its bad, its sweet and its
sour. Howard in New York Recorder.
Effect of the Earth's Motion on Illg Shot.
That the earth's motion has an appre
ciable effect upon artillery fire, deflect
ing the projectile from a straight course,
may be news to many and as such would
probably seem a novel notion. It has,
and the exact nature and extent of the
effect is an important point of study
with artillery experts. An English army
expert told of the results of many inter
esting experiments along this line in a
pajier read before the Royal Artillery
institution. Firing from north to south
there is a divergence of projectiles to the
left, due to the earth's rotation, and fir
ing due north the divergence is to tho
right, The extent of the "pull" varies
at different points of the earth's surface
and with projectiles fired at different
speeds and elovations. In England a de
flection of five inches is found to occur
with the projectile of a 13 pounder in a
4,000 yard rauge. Now York Sun,
A Wealthy Beggar.
A beggar who wag arrested in Lee,
Mass., one day last week wag found to
have hidden in the lining of his coat four
savings banks books representing depos
its amounting to $3,0iB, two of the banks
being in Boston and two in Providence.
He also bad 180 in money in bis pocket
and is credited with the ownership of
real estate in Boston and North Adams,
Mass. In addition to thin wealth, he baa
a wife and six children.
Right! nt llleyela Riders,
When the bicycle first made Its ap
pearance upon our highways, it was nat
ural, we suppose, for drivers of horses
who were themselves put to fright and
danger by tho fright of their horses to
bear for the time being no good will for
the novel vehicle, but now that horses
pretty generally have become accustom' '
ed to the noiseless wheel there would ap
pear to be no longer any reason why
drivers should persecute riders of the
wheel. But there are always a few
cross grained people who nevor revise
their opinions and never forget their
spite.
A few weeks ago one of these ill bred
fellows followed a trio of wheelmen rid
ing in the suburbs of Newark, drove
them off the road and otherwise mal
treated them, for which he has been ar
rested and held to bail to answe,it the
county court. And now we notice that
two suits have been brought in the su
preme court for damages one against a
person who carelessly left some plank in
the roadway opposite his premises,
against which a wheelman collided in
the dark and was badly injured, and an
other by a gentleman who while riding
on the streets of Bloomfield was run
down by a vehicle and seriously injured.
In both these cases damages were laid at
$9,000, and the suits are brought as well
to test the rights of the bicycle rider to
the common nse of the highway as to
redress their own private injuries.
These are said to be the first bicycle
cases ever begun in tho supreme conrt
of our state, and their decision will
probably mark a new era in tho history
of this remarkable invention. Mon
mouth (N. J.) Democrat. 1
Fluctuation In tha Iloney Crop.
This has not been a good year for the
beekeepers, as there has not been half a
crop of honey. There is a great differ
ence in seasons, so far as honey making
is concerned. Though flowers come in
about the same profusion each year, they
do not contain the same amount of hon
ey. Some years they seemed filled with
the sweet nectar, and the bees make fre
quent excursions and always return heav
ily laden, and other years the busy little
workers scour the country far and wide
and gather little honey. It has been
two or three years since there was a
large crop of the product, but when
there is beekeepers make plenty of mon
ey. In a good year an average season's
work for a stand of bees is 200 pounds of
honey, though a particularly good stand
will sometimes gnther 500 pounds. The
product sells from (00 to $140 a ton, so
that on a good year a person with 100
stands of bees would make from $900 to
$1,400. If every season was a good one,
a person conld not find an "odd job"
that would reward his spare time any
better thankeepingbees. Poinona(Cal.)
Progress.
Ilen.tnmln Day's Silver Star Found.
A relio of the war was found recently
by Mr. George W. Worley on his farm
southwest of Marietta, near Cheatham
hill, where there was a terrific battle
fought during the late war. It is a
bright silver star, as lurge as a silver
dollar. The following inscription in
plain letters is on it, "Benjamin Dey,
Company C, 184th Regiment, N. Y. V."
In the center, encircling "Company C,"
is a crescent. The star had a catchpin.
showing that it was worn on the lapel of
the coat or vest. Mr. Worley discovered
it whilo plowing. It is not in the least
corroded and wears a bright polish.
Now tho question is: Where is Benjamin
Dey? Is he dead or living? Whore in
New York do his people live? If they
would like to communicate with Mr.
Worloy, a letter addressed care of the
Marietta Journal will reach him. At
lanta Constitution.
Still tha White Warahlp.
There will bo no change in the color
of our naval vessels after all, and thoy
will continue to plow "the dark and
deep blue ocean" in their pristine white
beauty. An order has been issued by
the navy department prescribing that
hulls of all iron and steel vessels of the
navy outside, above the load water line,
and the bulwarks inside shall be painted
white. Regulations are prescribed as to
the kind and character of paints and
oils to be used, so as to insure uniform
ity. A light straw color is now the
regulation color for the masts, bow
sprits, doublings, smokestacks and
yards. A slab, painted to match the
standard color, will be prepared at the
New York navy yard and furnished to
each navy yard and station and to each
vessel in commission. Washington
Star.
An Electric Quo.
Tnrpln, the inventor of melinite, bos
submitted to the French war office an
electric gun alleged to be capable of dis
charging 25,000 projectiles in five min
utes and to have a range of several
miles. The apparatus is comparatively
light in weight, so that it can be drawn
by two horses and worked by four men.
The projectiles are small shells charged
with a secret chemical preparation,
spreading death for 60 yards around.
The English government is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of the In
vention, though skeptical of its value.
Electricity.
How Trees Grow.
The last annual circle of wood leaves
an accumulation of living cells upon its
surface, and toward midsummer these
cells produce an abundance of new ones
nntil the aggregate la sufficient to form
a new annual layer. This process on
common trees requires about six weeks,
Exchange.