A HOTEL GHOST. Tim KiTtlTe f i Slnmilnr Btirrlne of t.nril mid I.siIt Dunritvi'n. Apropos of n report Hint tlw Drpvoort Hutiso wim to bo 'lnnfil, whlrli was lr Iilt'd, howi'ViT, thi-rnl n vtorjrtlmt Linly DunniviMi lms bwn known to toll about tlift fiiiiinrm old imi. Tlio nimiti'ss is nV Soiilxd by thoso whu know lu-T uo a wo wim Hindi more incllni'd to roinmon sctiso tbun to fjliost hmmti'd Cork limo, even with Dr. JiiIiiipuii's mtthority. Mm tisoil to ti'll tlio fact In tlw tnlu simply for what thry vr worth. It wns mom than 0110 tlrcwln nfj, yours lieforo tlio Valkyrie Was tin mylit of, wlii'ii Ijord Diinravcn was first liitrr rstod in thn mining rru;ioii of northern Michigan. Hi) mid Dady Dimravcii wini staying in New York for a few days be fore starting west and had taken im him nt tlio Iirovoort plrasant rooms, v 'lli a view of thn nvonno jiihI n ni'-e :i'i: of Washington squaw. The lh : t u ; being tired with their voyag' yj 1 v 1 ' rnrly to bed, bat, ns it. Iiiippi . .1, t.; i early to sleep. Doth the curl ami r x i ess were blessed with hearty V.ur. constitutions. They were not at ull nc customed to lying nwukn till the muuII honors. They wondered what they could have done, what they could have pntcii or drank to afllict tliem with such frriitul tons rigi Inure. Jnst nt a venture llnally they bundled tliemselves out liito the adjoining parlor, made tbf inspires ex tempore cnuchos there and slept soundly till morning. Next night and the night after there was the siune wakefulness and in the end tlie same migration to the adjoining room for relief. They bo gnn to think they should have to leave town earlier than they had planned, for they would not for the world have luiido any pretext to shift chambers. The explanation of tho .mystery, if it was nu explanation, came out by chance They had a call before long from an old time New Yorker whom they had met in England, nn authority on ull mutters pertaining t tho town's minor Jiistory. "I wonder," ho remarked casually, "that they should have given you tlieM) rooms. Yon know it was in that room there, not so long ago, that a Mr. X hanged himself. " It wus In that room that Lord and Lady Dnnraveu had tr' 1 in vain to sleep, and they exchanged sif niilcuut glances. Of course it was ou 'y a coincidence, they said, but the ne-:t day they took their departure for the west New York Tribune. INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE. Ths Charactorlatle of irvana la Their Un failing Optlmlatn. The best that we gain from the pur suit of research is, Professor 'C. S. Mi not write In The Popular Science Monthly, our characteristic optimism. We are engaged in achieving results, and results of the most permanent and enduring quality. A business -man jnoy achieve a fortune, bat time will dissi pate it. A statesman may be the savior of a nation, but how long .do nations live? Knowledge has no country, be longs to no class, but is the might of mnnkind, and it is mightier for what each of ns has done. We have brought our stones, and they are built into the edifice and into its grandcrar. My .stono is a small one. It will certainly be 'for gotten that it is mine; ueverthcleM it will remnin in place. How different hi the pessimism to ward which literary men are seen to tend I Harvard university lost James Russell Lowell in 1891 and Asa 'Gray in 1888. Tho letters of both of these, emi nent men have been published. Law ell's letters grow sad and discouraged, and he gives wny more and mom .to the pessimistio spirit. Gray is optimistic steadily aud to the end. Tho differenoe was partly due to natural temperament, i bat chiefly, I think, to the influence of their respective professions. The subje- - material of the literary man is fumili.. . human nature and familiar hnman sur roundings, and his task is to express tho thoughts and dreams which these suggost. Ho must compete with the wliplo past, with nil the genius that has been.:. There is njulilng new under tin sun, Uiclaims But to ns it is a prov erb contradicted by our daily exyeri- enco. ! i. t. tel ' .'.:..i?flHs"C nroniiar. ' By myalls of a rocent French improve ment tho process of galvjuiio bronzing is said to hr.vo been made, not only more simple,, but capable also of giving every touo, from that of bnrboditui bronze to antique, greou, governed by the length of time that the copper is allowed to remain in contact with the liquid. Aft er tho piece has been well scoured it hi covered by means of a brnxh with a mixture composed of 20 parts of castor oil, 80 of nkohol and 40 part each of , soft soap uurUwiitor. Thus treated, tho pioco loft to irsolf for a period of 4 hours becomes. bronzed, and if the dura tion of contact be prolonged tho tone .changes, a very great variety of tones, pleasing in their appearunoo, being ob t.iinablo iu this manner. The drying is finally effected with hot sawdust, the only remaining operation being tlion that of coating the piece with a color less varnish largely -diluted with alco hol, thus inruring work of the finest character, Now York Soil At the Pearly iGaU. St. Poter (from within) Who agi tates the celestial lutchstring? Strong Voiced Shade, Tis I, tho new woman. A mere man is with me.' St Peter Tis welL Let each state his attributes. New Woman You know m. I came, I saw, I oouquered. The More Man My office is to salute, submit and surrender. St Peter The I's have it Place you sycophant on the toboggan and stop in side. Washington Times. Vole of Experlene. Grinnon Dying at a hotol U, it seems to mo, the saddest thing on earth. Barrett There is only one tiling sad der Hying at a hotel Chioago Trib une, v IT ANNOYED HIM. fie Came from the Went anil Was Tus sled That New Yorkers Knrw It. His coat was a trifle too long nnd his trousers nil Inch too wldo at the knee to be strictly and exactly fashionable ; but, aside from these nice discriminations, lie was dressed according to the dictates of the fashion nutocrats. We took the "L" together nt Pork place, nnd I noticed n puzzled expres sion, half ninnsenient, half annoyance, on his face. At Thirty-third street ho surrendered his seat to nn rlderly wom an mid stood in the nislo in front of where I sat. It was evident that ho was anxious to tell some one of tho subjects on his mind, so I was not surprised when he caught my eye and opened the conversation. "Just now," he said, "us I was hur rying to the station, a man caught hold of my arm and stopped me. Ho was a respectable looking fellow, well clothed, and wore a grayish beard parted in the middlft " 'I've lieen on a drunk,' tho man said to me, 'and I am sobering up. I live in Iluckcnsack, and I want to get homo. I huven't a cent and want a quarter. ' "I looked him over corefully, " con tinued uy chance acquaintance, "con cluded he was telling the truth and gave him thn money. As I hurried on, ho shouted after me : " 'I knew you were from tho west, and I knew you would give mo the mon ey. They are white out there I' "Now, what I want to know," said my acquaintance, "is how did he know I was from the west? It's true, but how did ho know it? Would you know it? Am I marked? Have I any tag on mo to tell others that I am a westerner?" "None that I know of," I assured him, "unless it be such little things as giving your seat up to ladies. That gen erally indicates that a man is not a na tive New Yorker." I got out ut Fiftieth street and left hliu with the same quizzical expression as if tlie quest ion had been only half an swered. New York Journal. DRINK WITH MEALS. IJqnlil Fond an Aid to Dlgmtlnn, and Cold Drinks Refrenh Heated Persons. The incessant adjuration not to drink with meals we have always held the re verse of truth from thoory and from ex- perienoe. The latter is that dry meals cause .heartburn, the former shows that splitting up the meal of solid food with liquid acts precisely like splitting logs of wood into kindling for tho firo, giving the digestive .fluid easy access to the small particles, instead of sizzling and making gas on the outside of a wad of thick paste. And the talk of diluting the gastrio juice is nonsense, because the surplus fluid drains quickly through tho stomach. Better .drink too much than too little. We are glad now to be re-enforced by an English sporting man, Mr. Horace Hayes, who says that drinking nothing during or -for an hour and a half after meals is the best of ways to train down weight, but he .cannot do it becanso it always bringsou rheumatism probably from ithe solid food producing ovcrcon centrated salts hi the circulation, aud consequent deposits in the muscular fiber. The same writer says that the no tion about animals being injured by giv ing thorn a drink whon heated is a stupid and cruel pioae of barbarism s that it only does them harm whon .the drink is vory cold, by producing nervous shocks as it would to a nnul, whilo if tho chill is taken off it first, it refreshes a heated horse to take a good drink just as it does a heated human boiug. Travelers' RoO' ord. W Are Slams to Greed. If to be free is to live in a country (tne united states) where you .are in mortal dread of the .press and the po lice, whore yon are heartily ashamod of Jiaviug any one oouuoctod with yon en .gaged in politics, whore corruption roiguB in every department of tho gov' ornuient and .the munioipalitios, where .the only aristocracy is that of wealth .and not of honor, and where the liberal professions ore all oounted lower than Wall street, whore, in effect, men are .the veritable aluves of .greed aud gain, why, givo me the old fashioned slavery of the old country and .the domination of same recognized house which is at least the fountain of honor. Xjhie doesn't hutve to apologize in Enir land for going to court, but it seems necessity iu Amorica if .one is iu any wayaounooted with the White House. When J first came here, J thought member of tho house .of roprosoutatives held j position at laaat analogous to the average member of parliament. I find, ou the contrary, ho is about as much esteemed as an outside broker on the Stock Exchange,, and fur much the same reasons. Temple Bar. Maniac of the Adriatic. "The Murriugo of the Adriatic" was instituted iu commemoration of a naval viotory wou by Sebastian Ziavi, doge of Venice, over Otto, sou of Frederick Burbarossu, 1174. In coruiequeuoo of this victory Pope Alezaudnr III, who had been driven to tuke refuge iu Ven ice, gave to the doge the sovereignty of the boo, and every year tho doge used to go in grand procession in his state bargo and throw a gold ring into the Adriatic, saying, "With this ring I thee wed." Flowers wore then thrown into the sea, and the procession returned. The sou touoe delivered by tlie doge on tho oc casion was literally, "Dospousumus te Ware nostrum in signum vori perpotu ique doniiui." Brooklyn Eagle. Appeased. He (just introduced) What a very ugly man that goutlemuu ueur the piano is, Mrs. Hobsou. Mrs. Hobsou Why, that is Mr. Hob son. He (equal to the occasion) Oh, in deed! How true it is, Mrs. Hobsou, that the ugly men always gut the prettleat Wives, London Answers. A QUEER ANIMAL. The Anstrallnn Dncilthltl Carries a St ln In One Leg. Australia, certainly holds tho palm for queer nnd uncouth animals, ('hief among these is the duckbill, or onittlio rhynchus, which Sidney Smith desorilicd as "o kind of mole with webbed feet nnd the bill of a duck, which ngitnted Sir Joseph Bnnks nnd rendered him miserable from his utter inability to decide whether It was n Wrdnrahent. " It was only recently that it wns proved beyond a doubt that this curious animal lays eggs like n bird, though this had long been reported by travelers. Now comes the news that it has a sting on its hind leg, capable of killing by Its poisonous elTeots. We quote from The Lancet : "For n long time It wns considered to bo quite harmless and destitute of any weapon of offense, although tho hind legs of tho mules woro armed with a powerful spur, apparently connected with a gland. J lien the opinion wns ad vanced that this might bo a weajKin al lied to tho poisonous armory of snakes, scorpions nnd liocs, all of which possess a sort of hypodermic loison syringe. Though one set of observers asserted that tills was theciiFO, another set denied it, and so Dr. Stuart determined, if pos sible, to solve this question. He received two Independent accounts, which coin cided perfectly, nnd from them he con cludes that nt certain seasons, at all events, the secretion is virulently poi sonous. Tho mode of attnek is not by scratching, but by lateral inward move ments of the hind lens. Two cases are reported in dogs. Ono dog wras 'stung' three times, the symptoms much resem bling those from bee or hornet poison. The dog was evidently in great pain and very drowsy, but there were no tremors, convulsions or staggering. It Is worthy of note that a certain immunity seems obtainable, for the dog suffered less ou tho second occasion and still less on the third. Two cases of men being wonndod are reported, in botli of which the mil mnls were irritated, one by being shot and hnndlod, the other by being handled only J the symptoms wore tho same as in tho dog. No deaths are reported in human beings, but four iu dogs." Lit erary Digest. The Right of Way. At Park place nnd Broadway, New York, as a mail wagon turned into the latter thoroughfare to go up town, the horses knocked down a pedestrian who was hurrying into City Hull park. For a wonder the driver pulled up, and though the man wus at the horses' feet he escaped the wheels. He came crawl ing out, covered with dirt and more or less hurt, and the drivor looked down at him nnd coldly Inquired : "Do you know what yon have been doing, sir?" "I do,"replied the man as he brushed away at tho dirt, "but I couldn't help it I m not the man to interfere with tho United States mails. " "Better look out in future." "Yes, I will." I followed him into the park, where ho sat down on a bench to get his breath, and told him that n mail wagon had no more right to run over him than an ice cart. "Is that so?" he asked iu doubting tones. "Well, by gum, but this is the fourth time I've been run over by them, and next time they try it on I'll raise a fuss. "Detroit Free Press. The Ooddeaa of Life. Vesta wns the goddess of lifo and of home, Hor altar stood on every hearth' stone, her fire burned on the floor of ev ery public building. Emigrants, when leaving their country, always enrried with them fire from the public hearth The vestal virgins spent 80 years in sorvloe ten in learning their duties, ten in practicing them, ten in teaching novices. After this term had expired. they might, if they chose, leave the serv ice of their divine mistress or marry, but few did sa Honors were showered upon them. They rode in chariots, privilege in Rome aooordod only to roy alty ; the best seats in the amphitheater were rosorvod for them ; thoy pardoned or oondemned the gladiators. If a crim innl led to execution met a vostul, he was instantly released, no matter what his crime. Spcclul Notice. No medicine was erer given such a severe tost of its curative qualities as Otto's Cure. We are distributing sain plo bottles free of charge to those afflicted with consumption, asthma, coughs, colds, pneumonia, croup and ull diseases of tho throat and lungs, giving you tho proof that Otto's Cure will cure you. Don't delay, but get a bottle of us to-day and commenco the uso of this groat guaranteed remedy, Sold by W. B. Alexander, solo agent, Suuiplcs free. Lurgo bottles otic. School Methods Abread. As a rule natural history and geogra phy are moro delightfully taught in Prussia than here. We gladly uso its mails, colored pictures and natural col lections. School hygiene in Switzerland is enforced in wonderful ways. Skating vacations on well prepared icefields are proscribed, and thore are vacation colonies and "milk cares" for the sick' ly. From Vieunn ooinos the demand for more playgrounds under tho care of ex perioucod teachers maintained by the oity nnd regularly nttoudod. Lust Re. port of United States Commissioner of Education W. Harris. Wanted to Know Too Much. Broncho Bill Whatcher shoot de ten derfoot for? Kirowutor Juko W'y, de kid hed nerve tor ax mo where I got five noes I Syracnse Post Karl's Clover Root, the groat blood purifier gives freshness- and clearness to the complexion and euros constipa tion, 25ots., 50ct., U.OO. Sold by J. C. King & Co. A3 THE ROMANS SAW IT. A Ctasulo rvrforiiisnre tn the Old Thea ter at Orange. Of scenery, in tho ordlnnry sense of the word, there was none nt all. What we saw was the real thing. In I ho open ing sctto of "CEdipus," the king, com ing forward through the royal portal and across tho rniped platform in tho rear of tho stage, did literally "enter from tho palace" nnd did "descend the palace slips lo the publio place where Croon nnd tho priests awaited him. It was a direct roversul of tho or dinary effect In the ordinary theater, Whero tho play loses iu realism because current of necessarily appreciated but purposely rejected antagonistic: fact un derrnus tho conventional illusion and compels ns to perceive that tho palace is but painted canvas, and even on the lnrgest stngo only four or five times as high as tho prince. Tho.pnluco nt Or ange, towering nil as though it wonld touch tho very heavens and obviously of veritablo stone, was a most peremp tory renllty. Tho fortuitous accessory of tho trees growing close beside the stage added to the outdoor effect still another very vivid touch of realism, and this was heightened by tho swaying of tho branch es, nnd by tho gracious motion of the draperies, under the fitful pressnro of the strong gusts of wind. Indeed the mistral took a very telling part in the performance. Plnyors less perfect In their art wonld have been disconcerted by it, bnt thesoof the Comedie Francalse were quick to perceive nnd to utilize its artistie possibilities. In the very midst of the solemn denunciation of OZdiims by Tiresias, the long white beard of the blind prophet suddenly wns blown up ward so that his face was hidden nnd his utterance choked by it, and the mo mentnry pause, whilo he rulsed his hand slowly, nnd calmly freed his face from this chance covering, made n dramatic. break Iu his discourse, and added tn it a naturalness which vividly intensified its solemn Import. Iu like manner tho final eutry of tEdiims, coming from tho pal ace after blinding himself, wns inndo thrillingly real For a moment, ns he enme upon the stage, the horror which he hnd wrought upon himself his ghostly eyesockots, his blood stained face was visible, nnd then a gnst of wind lifted his mnntlo and flung it about his head so that all wns concealed, and an exquisite pity for him was aroused whilo he struggled painfully to rid him' self of the incumbrance by the imposi tion of this petty annoyance upon his mortal agony of body and of soul. "Tho Comedie Frnncaise nt Orange," by Thomas A. Janvier, in Century. A Hrlulit Unlit Ahead For all those who have been wearing out their lives from tho effects of dys pepsin, liver complaint, Indigestion, etc. Wo guarantee Bacon's Celery King for the Nerves to cure you, nnd If you will call at our store, we will gladly give you a package free of charge of this Infallible herbal health restorer. Bacon's Celery King for the Nerves cures costlveness, nervousness, sleeplessness and all discuses arising from derangement of the stomach, liver and Kidneys. Samples free. Large size 50c. at W. B. Alexanders, sole agent. Gentlemen: I cannot forbear from writing a line In approval of your Hisxl's Celery. I have been a sufforor from nervous headaches until I thought my head would burst. Nearly overy remedy I tried seemed to aggravate my suffering. Two bottles of your wonder ful medicine havo mudo my life worth living and the world brighter for me. Please accept the thanks of a grateful woman. J. Mii.LICknt Vkhnkr, 238 McMillan Avenue, Cincinnati, O. Sold by Stoke, tho druggist. Pursue not a victory too for. He hath conquered well that hath made his ene my fly; thou inayost beat him to a des perate resistance, which may ruin thee. Georgo Herbert. Gasparin estimates that the evapora tion of water from the surface of the earth is from 35 to 50 inches a year, ac cording to location. Walter hnd been on the ocean a day and night, and when laud appeared he said, "Oh, muuuna, I am so pleased to we dirt again. " It la anlil nn n, cmtirnutee frr ail riniir- grlats. It cures Incipient Consumption aad is tho bet Cough and CrouD Cure. Hold hyJ.C. KInitACo 66t an Education. Education mid fortune no InniA In lmml. Oct an education ut the Central Htatn Nor mal bVliool, Lock Haven, Pa. ('Imt-ctaHS iici'oniniuriutloiiH mid low rates, Pluto nll to Mtuduuts. for llltiMt ruled cutiilnKim iMlUrott I AM Kb KLHON, I'll. !., I'rliclpal, J-IH'K U11VUI1, 1'U. rOH'S NOTjL'E. DM1NISTHATOH' Notice 1h lierohy Hlvon Unit let rs of A(l- midst ration on lie muttc in niu liiel C.'otVeo, Into of Heynnllvlli, JetTerwin unity, I'd., to mild villi). I'll. All persons lmlelil diva ni.nii iminiuu iu i. j. nurr. estnto are rciiiril lo nmke imn ,..,. ... tin, iiilmtiilsti'iitor. uinl I Kt Into pity- clulina HKiilust It will present tliii, properly u.u niiviiiK probutuU, to li I in lor buuicnieut, .1. 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