A JWaf. . I I I A. A. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1896. NUMBER 27. VOLUME 5. ttallvoab Vrim frahlra. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. in effect june 14, 18ini. Philadelphia Eric Itallrond Division Time Table. Trains leave Driftwood. KAHTWAUD 9:H n m-Trnln n, dully esrept Sunday fur 8untury, llnrrlbur unit Intermediate sta tions, nrrlvln nt rhlliidrlhln 6:'.M p.m., Ni'H York, p.m.! llultlnioic.ll: p.m.! Washington, 7:IA p. m I'tiUman I'arlor rnr fnim Wllllnmsport and passenger couches from Knne to I'lilliiclidphln. S:IW p. m. Train , riullv except Sunday for llnrrlsburir anil Intermediate stations, ar riving at IMilliuli'lplilu 4::m A. M.t New York, 7:: . M. I'lillmnn Sleeping curs from Hiirrlsburg to Philadelphia and New York. 1'hllndelphln passenger can remain In sleeper undlstiirhed until T :f)0 A. M. 9:M p. m. Trnln 4, dully for Sunlniry, Harris htirg and Intermediate stations, arriving lit Philadelphia, ;IW A. M.I New York, 11:33 A. M. on week day nnd 10.:m A M. on Sun day! Hnltlmoru, 8:20 a. m.i Washington, 7:40 A. M. I'ullmnn ears from Erie and wllllams port to Philadelphia. Passengers In sleeper for Baltimore nnd Washington will bo transferred Into Washington sleeper at Hnr rislmrg. Passenger poaphe from Krla to Philadelphia and Wllllnmsport to Balti more. WESTWARD 7:21 a. m.-rTraln 1, dully expppt Sunday for Kldgaay, bullols, Clermont nnd Inter mediate station. Leaves Uldgway nt 3:13 p. M. for Erie. :W n. m. Train 8, daily for Erie nnd Inter mediate point. 8:26 p. m. Train II, dally rxrp.pt Sunday for Kane and Intermediate station. THROUGH TRAINS FOR DRIFTWOOD FROM THE EABT ANDSOUTH. TRAIN II leave Philadelphia :23 A. m.t Washington, 7.90 A. M.g Baltimore, H:fi0 A. H. Wllkesbarre, 10:1(1 A. M.t dally except Sun day, arriving at Driftwood at y.'M P. x. with I'ullmnn I'urlur car from Philadelphia to Wllllumaport. TRA IN S leaves New York nt p. m.t Phila delphia. 1I:JU p. m.i Washington, 10.40 p.m.) Baltimore, ll;SO p. m.i dally arriving nt Driftwood at 1:90 ii. m. I'ullmnn sleeping par from Philadelphia to Krle nnd from Washington and Baltimore to Wllllnmsport and through passenger roarhps f rom rhllu dclpbln to Erie and Baltimore to Wllllamn purt. TRAIN 1 leave Renovo nt 11:30 n. m., dally except bundny, arriving nt Driftwood 7:21 " JOHNSONBUUG RAILROAD. (Daily except Sunday.) TRAIN W leaves Rldgwny nt 0:3n. m.t .Tolin tfonhiirg at 9:88 a. m., arriving nt Clermont nt 10:itt n, m. TRAIN 20 leaves Clermont at 10:411 a. m. ar riving at .Tobnsonbiirg at 11:41 a. m. and Rldgway at 12:00 n. m. JJIDGWAY & CLEARFIELD R. R. DAILY EXCF.PT SUNDAY. SOUTHWARD. NORTHWARD P.M A.M. STATIONS. P.M. P.M. iTi(i 5a Rldgway 2 00 12 17 9 33 Island Run 1 .Y! 1221 9d Mill Haven 1 4tt 12 32 04H t'royland 137 12 : Pf2 Shorts Mills 1 M 12 40 IIM HIitoHiM'k 1211 12 42 v : Vliieyurd Run 1 27 12 Vi 10 01 L'ni-rlor 12.1 12 55 1012 Bropkwnyvllle 115 105 Mi Minn Summit 1 05 109 1li'5 Hurveys Run 12 !W 1 15 10 30 Falls Creek 12 50 145 10 411 Dullola 12 40 TRAINS LEAVE RIDUWAY. FaMward. Westward 8 30 8 23 8 HI 8 00 8 04 8 5 55: 5 54 644 5 33 ft 2 6 20 6 10 Trains, 7:17 a. m. Train , II :34 n. Train 0,2:10 p.m. Train 1,3:15 p Train 4, 7:5.1 p. m. Train 11, 7:21 p, . m. ni. m 8 M. l'KF.VOST, Gen. Manager. J. H. WOOD. (Jen. Pass. Ag't. BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTS BURGH RAILWAY. The short line between DuBols, Rldgway, rinuimui r-niniiinii,n, uuunn,. Hinnuniri, Niagara Falls and point In the upper oil region. On and after Nov. loth. ls5. nassen ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls irK station, anity, exoept eunany, as ioi lows: 7:85 a. m. for Curwensvlllo nnd Clout-Held. 1:85 p. m. Appommodnllon from Punxsu tnwney and Big Run. 10:OOa.m. Huffttlnand RiKhcster mail For Wns-k way vine, KUIgwny.Johnsoiibiirg.mt. Jewett, Bradford, Salumatica, Bufl'alo and Koehpster; eonnetaltig nt .lohnsonburg with I'. & K. train 4, ror Wilcox, Kane, Warren, Corry and Erie. 10:87 n. m. Appommodntlon For Bykea, fig Hun ana runxsuiawney. 8:80 p. m. Bradford Aocommodatlon For Uiss'Iitreo, lirockwayvillu, KUtnont, 'ar moti, Rldgway, Juhusonburg, Mt. Jewett anu liinuToru. 4:87 p. m. Mall For DuBols, Rykea, Big kuu I'unxsuuiwuey nnu waision, Passengero are reauested to purchase tick eta before entering the cars. An excess charge of Ten Cent will be collected by con ductors when fares are puWl on trains, from nil stations wneren ticket omce ismaiutnineu Thousand mile tickets at two cent per mile, good tor passage between all stations. 3. 11. MclNTYRK, Agent, Falls Greek, Pa. E. O. tMPKV, Oen. Pas. Agent, Rochester N. Y. A LLEGHENY VALLEY RAILWAY 's- COMPANY comraenoingr Sunday June 7, 1890, Low Grade Division. AKTWAKD. No.l. No.5. No.. 101 10 BTATWNB. A. M. P. M. A. M. A. St. P. Ii Red Rank 10 45 4 40 Lawsotiliam .. .. 10 57 4 52 New Bethlehem 11 80 6 25 5 20 Oak Ridge 11 Hh 6 33 6 27 MaysviHe 11 40 6 41 5 U4 Bunimervllle... 12 05 8 00 5 51 Brookvllle 12 25 6 20 0 Bell t!2 81 8 2ll t8 15 Fuller 12 43 8 3s t 27 Reynoldsvllle.. 1 00 6 5H 6 45 Pnncoast 1 0U 7 05 6 53 FallsCreek 1 SH 7 12 7 (m 18 80 1 88 DuBols 1 85 7 20 7 10 10 40 1 45 Sabula 14 7 8.'. 7 23 Wlnternurn .... 1 8ti 7 4i 7 34 Pennuld t 05 7 52 7 40 Tyler t 15 8 02 7 6o Boneaette HI 8 30 8 is Grant t2 63 t8 40 2H Driftwood 8 20 9 10 8 55 p. m. p. m a. m. a. m. p. ii Wkhtwakd. No.2 No.6 No.10 108 110 STATION. A. M. A. M. P. M. P, M. P. It Driftwood 10 10 6 00 6 30 Grant -10 42 6 82 6 01 ftenetetta 10 52 6 42 6 11 Tyler 11 20 6 10 8 8H Pcnticld 11 80 6 20 6 41) Wlnlerburu .... U 8tl 6 2'i 6 55 Ealmla 11 47 6 87 7 07 DuBols 1 00 6 50 7 27 12 40 S 10 Fall. Creek 128 7 20 7 80 I860 (80 Pnncoast 1 80 7 24 7 40 KeynulusvlU.. 1 42 7 40 7 52 Fuller 15M 7 67 8 OH Bell 2 10 t8 0U n 21 Brookvllle 8 0 8 111 8 2u BumioervlUe.... 8 8 8 8N 8 4H Mnysvllle 1 5 8 67 t 05 OukKidge 8 08 t 06 8 1H New Belhleuwn 8 15 8 15 9 86 Lawsonham.... 8 47 9 47 SadBank i 00 10 00 p. m. a. m p. M. p u. r. U. Trains dally exoept Sunday. DATID MoCABOO, Ou'l, BcPT. JAB. P. 4NDEB80N Gn't FaM. Aei. A Great Medicine Given Away. Reynold Drug- Storo Is now giving free to all A trial package ol the gruat hnvhnl romody, Bacnn'a Colory King. If Indlo iiifforlng from norvous dis orders nntl eonstlpatlon will use this remedy thoy will soon lw free from the headaches and bnckiiehos that havo caused them so much suffering. It is a perfect regulator. It quickly cures biliousness, Indigestion, eruptions of the skin nnd all blood diseases. Large size 2.1 cents and fiO cents. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Tho liest salve In the world for cuts, Bruise, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sore, Tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, nnd all skin eruptions, nnd positively cure pile, or no nay required. It Isguanintcedtoglvepcrfppt satisfaction or monpy refunded. Price 28 pent per box. Forsnlobr H. Alex. Stoke. JJEECH CREEK RAILROAD. Ntw York Central it Hudson River R. R. Co., leiiM OONDKNSBD TIME TABLE. HEAD HP IIKAD HOWIt Exp Mall MAT 17, 1W8. Exp Mall No 37 No 33 NoaO No38 p m p m am p m 165 Arr....PATTON....Lvo t830 1 34 Wcstover 852 '0 25 1 10 M"Vll A FpF.YTrrn t5O0 4 15 9 00 12 36 Lve ... K ermoor....Arr 6 26 4 42 8 50 12 25. OA.y.AM. ....... 63, 452 8 43 12 Is A rr . . . Kef moor . . . . Lvo 641 4 5H 8 38 12 13 NcwMllisirt 6 48 6 03 8 32 12 07 Mania 6 62 6 OH 8 25 12 00 Mitchells 6 58 6 15 805 11 10 Lvo. Clearfield Jiinc.Arr 615 534 765 1131 CLEARFIELD 8 26 g 745 II 21 Arr.CleartteldJunc.Lve 635 619 737 11 12 WiKslland 645 62 7 31 11 0 Illgler 6 52 6 34 7 23 1058 ..Wnllaceton 687 640 7 15 1050 .. Murrlsilnle Mines.... 7 08 6 4s 707 1041 Lve Munson Arr 7 15 667 0 35 10 08 Lve I ..., I Arr 7 40 7 27 7 27 1101 Arr (PHILI'SIIO Lve 6 55 6 35 7 05 10 38 Arr.....Munson Lve 7 17 7 00 7 00 10 3 Wlnburne 7 22 7IH 640 10 13 1'EAI.K 740 7 25 8 20 9 50 nilllntown 767 7 44 8 13 943 SNOKHHOK 804 7 62 6 18 8 48 ....BEECH CREEK 8 48 8 42 61X5 833 Mill Hull 901 8 53 458 825 LOCK HAVEN 907 8 5s 4 47 8 15 Yoiingdnlu 9 16 9 07 4 35 SOD JERSEY SHORE JI'NU. 9 29 9 18 4: 755 IF.RSEY SHORE.... 9 30 9 20 t4 00 t7 25Lve WILLIAMSI' T Arr 10 05 9 55 p m a m a m p tn t) m a m I'lili.A. .V Rkaiuno It. R. am n m 2 40 8 5,1 Arr WILLI AMSP'T Lve 1020 ll 30 8 35 11 : Lve PHI LA Arr 60s 710 t4 ) Lv N.Y.vhi Tamaiiun r 6 00 J7 80Lv..N. Y. via l'hlla.. Arb7M $9 30 n m p m p m am Dally t Wcek-dnya no p m Bundnys j lean a m nunnny "b" New York niisscnirera traveling via Phil adelplila on 10.20 a m train from Wllllams port, will change eara at Columbia Ave., rniiaiieipiua. xJNK'TIONN. At Wllllnmsnnrt with I'liiliidelphlii&KeeillngR.R. AtJursey Shore wiiii ran nnsiK Ktiiiway. ai nnu Hall with Central Railroad of Pennsylvania. At PhtllpHhiirg with Pennsylvania Railroad and AllisHia & IMillluhiirg Connecting R. R. At Clearfield with Buffalo. Rochester ft Pittsburgh Railway. At Malinffey and l'stton wllli Cambria ft Cleattleld Division of Pennsylvania Rallroiid. At Mnliaffey with i-ennsyivauia at norm-western Kaiiroaii. A. (I. I'ai hkr, F. E. Hkihiiman, SuoerlnteiKlent. Gen'l Pass. Agt. Philadelphia, Pa. Qotrt. JJOTEL McCONNELL, REYNOLDSVILLE. PA. FRANK J. MACK, Proprietor. The leading hotel of the town, lleadqnsr ters for commercial men. Kteam heat, free bus, bath rooms and clisietH on every floor, sample rooms, billiard room, telephone con nections ate, JJOTEL BELNAPf REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. . C. DILLMAN, Proprietor. First class In every particular. Located In theverv centre of the business part of town Free 'bus to and from trains and commodious sample room for commercial traveler. HtlarrUiituou. NKFP. JUSTICE OP THE PEACE And Real Estate Agent, Reynoldsvllle, Pa. Q MITCHELL, ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W. Office on West Main tnet, oppnalta tho Oammerclal Hotel, Reynoldsvllle, Pa. C. I. OORDOS. JOHN W. BEIB. QORDON & REED, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W, Brookvllle, Jefferson Co., Pa. Office In room formerly oraapled by Gordom uurueit west main otruei.. W. I. MtORAOKSN, BrMkvilio. S. M. H.D0SALD, BiyMUovilU. jyjcCRACKEN & Mcdonald, Attorney and Counellor-at-Law, Office at Rornoldlvllle and Brookvllle. JpRANCIS J. WEAKLEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OfHcesIn Mulioney building, Main Street, Beynoldsville, Pa. jya. B. E. HOOVER, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. Resident dentist. In building near Metho dist church, opposite Arnold block. Gentle nam In operating. D ,R R. E. HARBISON, SURGEON DENTIST, Reynoldsvllle, Pa. Office In room formerly occupied by 1. 8. McOrelgut. J)R. R. DeVERE KINO, DENTIST, Office at the residence of f . O, King, M. D., at corner of Main and With streets, Reynolds vllle, Pa. JUVENILE LITERATURE. tn Wane It I Prim to the Extreme ol Insipidity. Lltcrotnro in onr country not having as Its aim cither instruction or amuso tnnut, but tho production of works of art, is forbidden to French children. 1 except fairy talcs. Pcrnolt has written ninsterplocrsj Mrae. d'Anluny nnd oth ers have followed him. Tho fairies of Other conntrlcs may have been mors poetic, bnt they have never been as wit ty as tho French. Lenving fniry titles asido, children were obliged for long time to be satisfied with the very alight collection bequeathed by Bcrguiu, Bonilly, Minn, do Ucnlis, those clever people and who know how to coat a moral lesson with a thin layer of pictures, as bitter pills are coated with sugur. In fact, this is tho French parents' rcry ideal in the matter of story books, and to please them the lesson ninst nut be too well coated or hard to find, for the spirit of investigation is not encouraged in yonng renders. During the post 80 years, however, the monger library at their disposal baa grown wonderfully. Celebrated pens have oontt ibnted toward it We need bnt mention Jules Verne, whose scientific fairy tales have, alas, almost completely dethroned those that appealed to the imagination alone. But neither in his books, nor in those of any of his com petitors, will yon ever find what both English and American writers onrrently permit themselvos to do namely, to ar raign a relative, as, for instance, the Wicked nncle in "Kidnapped," or to make teachers hateful, or merely ridicu lous, as is the case in Dickens' works. This would be an outruge upon the re spect due them in the aggregate. For this reason translation! are nearly nl wars expnrgnted. The friendly adop tion of poor Laurie by the four girls in "Little Women" would be considered vory unseemly. Yet, for all thut, they were good little New bngluud girls. T. B. Altlrich's "Story of a Bud Boy" was deprived of one of its prettiest chapters, the one about his childish love for a big girl. "It is useless, they say, "to draw attention to that kind of danger." Authors and editors are often greatly perplexed before this severe tribunul of French parents. Tho difference between the books children are allowed to read in France and those sought by their elders, the contrast between the taste less pap on one side and the infeiuttl spiceness on the other, must greatly us tonisli both English and American read' ers, who nearly all accept the same lit erary diet, young nnd old, parents and children. Th, Bentzon in Century. HE GOT EVEN. A Virginia Justice Oio Bad a Orndfe Aaralnst Washington- A Washington man who bad some business before one of the smaller courts in a Virginia county went down there on a recent Saturday to attend to it, He found the judge before whom the matter name, and as it was a merely pro forma proceeding he had no antici pation of trouble in getting it done. When tiie matter was presented, the judge said : "No, sab. If I transact that business for yon, I will have to open oo't, and I will not open co't for any Washington man on Saturday." "Why not?" asked the astonished Capital City man. "Because, sah, I went down to Wash ington on a Saturday not long ago, and not a single judge was sitting in the oo't I am an attorney, sah, an attor ney admitted to practice in Washington oo'ts, and yet because it was a Saturday I was not allowed to practice there, sah, when I luid some vital points to make, sah." " Wall, I am not to be blamed for that, said the man from Washington. " Yon ought not to hold me responsible for what the judges do or do not da "It makes no difference, sah; yon are part of the system, a devilish bad sys tem, sah, and you most help to reform it, aah, and yon are the first man I have had opportunity to impress my views upon, and I am going to make them felt Go home and reform your system of Batnrdqy oo'ts, and then come to me, sah." And Virginia got even with Wash' ington in one case. Washington Star. Mot Safer For Sarvioo la Cuba. Spanish soldiers are betraying an in surmountable aversion to a campaign in Cuba, and desertions hava been very frequent of late. This has led to the adoption of an extremely strict surveil lance along the Pyrenean frontier, and all the trains running to Franoe are carefully scrutinized by the Spanish gendarmes, to the annoyance and dis comfort of many of the passengers. Yonng men are subjected to a severe examination, and those who are nnable to establish their identity or give a sat Isfaotory explanation of the motives of their joarney are oompelled to alight and are ooudnoted to the gendarmerie, Where they are again plied with ques tions, all the deserters detected in this way being at once handed over to the military authorities. This often entails considerable delay, and in spite of the watchfulness of the officials many yonng soldiers still anooeeed in making their way into Franoa. London Telegraph. That Finished Hlaa, He Why was Solomon ths wisest manf 8he Because he bad so many wives to advise him. London Tit-Bits, American Matter and fllbhon. Gibbon carefully studied for himself the questions at issue In the American war. From Israel Mnuduit, the agent of Massachusetts Bay, and from Govern or Hutchinson ho ga Vpred material for forming an Indopendh. V judgment. "I think," he says, "I ha S sacked them very dry, and if niy confidence wns equnl to my eloquence, nnd my elo quence to my knowledge, perhaps I might make no very intolerable speak er. " It is curious to note in his letters the apathy of parliament on tliosrliject. "In this season and on Atneric.," he writes In May, 1778, "the Archnngel Gabriel would not bo heard." His own opinion was, on sovoral points, adverse to the policy or tho government, which, exoept on one occasion, ho stoad ily supported. He was one of those in dolent men who attach themselves to political lcadors rather than to political principles. For Lord North he felt a warm affection, and throughout voted with him, sometimes against his better judgment. His speech would probably have been silver, his silence was certainly golden. In 1778 be was appointed a commission er of trade and plantations, with a sal ary of 760 a year. Fox believed that he had been bribed by office and ex pressed the belief In the lines: Ring Onerae, In a frlh Lt Gibbon hnnld writ Th story of EnRland' dlsirraee, Thoucht no way so aura Els pen losccara A to glv tho niatorUn plaee. Gibbon held the appointment till the abolition of the office in 1782. Nine teenth Century. A City of Ttrldfe. Few people realize that Chicago to day possesses more bridges In number than any other oity in AiScrica. Col leotively they constitute a greater total length in miles than any other system. The extent of n single span of one of the swing bridges is greater than that of any other bridge. Modern brllne con struction is embodied in and illustrnted with a greater variety of perfected mechanical dovices in Chicago than is the case in any other city in the world. Standing out like mounttM iits erected ntntiianitir ailrill tra a t-Tnln'at A tit fix. J 1 1 g mvi'l ' "ti niiJ aa jjtiviiiu n -(.. a- prise, and to mechanical perfection, these bridges present a greater varioty of admirable features uud tiro evidences of better workmuuship than cnti be fonnd in the best of all tho cities in either the old or the new world. Chicago has 08 bridges spanning the river and its branches at every point whero commerce and truffle, demand a passageway. There are 88 systems of viaducts, which bespeak as muny safe guards for the people ugainst tho dan gcrs of railroad transportation. Represented among these 08 bridges is to bo fnnnd every description of swing or drawbridge which the world possess es, todny that is of practical value. They constitute within a radius of a few miles a congeries of mechanical devices which captivate thespectstnr with their perfection and diversity of arrange ments. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Hog Make Sunday Visit. A bright farrier dog owned at the Americnn Honse, Pittsfield, Mass., is known at tho Maplewood a Billy. The dog every Sunday morning goes to the Maplewood and stnys in the oashier's office, bat never goes away from the American on other dnys nnless taken to the Maplewood. Sundays, as regularly as that day comes, in the season, the ani mal takes np his early march for the other house, remains all day and re turns. This he has done for the past few seasons, and so regularly that tho guests at the Maplewood havo beoorae familiar with him and his peculiarities. Now they are asking how the dog knows the diffoTenoe botween Sunday and other days, as his visits are made before the church bolls begin to ring. Boston Herald. Xolao and Nambvra. A Yankee, upon eating bis first meal of frogs' legs, asked the hotel proprietor how bo accounted for the high prioe. He was told it was on account of the carol ty of the product. "Not at all," aid tba Yankee. ""I can get yon 1,000,000." "A mlUlonf gasped 'the bonifaoe. "I sbonld like to engage to Hud yon a profitable market if yon can produce them. " "Why, I oan got them today surely." At night the Yank came back with eight pairs and declared the trick off. "I thought yon said yon knew Where you could get 1,000,000," said boniface. "Well, to tell yoa the truth," explained the other, "I formed my judg ment of tho number by the noise." San Francisco Argonaut Kesentcd. "I will bnnt him to tho figurative ends of the earth," said the Boston man in most earnest tone, "Pshaw I" said the other. "You art not the first man who has been hold n and robbed of 8 or $4." "I care not for the paltry money," said the Bostonian, "but when h pointed tho firearm at me the beast said, 'Stand right whero yon are at!' " And a shudder ran through his frame. Indianapolis Journal. Doe Away With Bluing. An ingenious Frenchman has doui way with the need of bluing in laun dering. He makes a soap in which hi incorporates a solution of aniline greet in strong acetic aoid. The alkali of th soap converts tho green to blue, mi there yon are. Buffalo Courier. A Liberal Minded looser. "What Is that big book in tho enr- I'T?" said the young mnn who had call- Id nt yonng Mr. Easylad's apartments. "That s my sorupbook." "Full of pictures and poetry and stnff, I suppose " "No. Souvenirs. Take a look into it" Lifting the pnnderons volnme to a ta ble, the visitor opened it nnd exclaimed, "Why, this looks like collection of lottery tickets. " 'That shows yon never played tho races. They'ro tickets thot the book makers gave me in exchange, for a lib eral percentage of my income. They'ro certificates of stock in enterprises thnt never declared a dividend. They're re ceipts for n liberal fee in a lfg course of tuition in the school of experience." "Most peoplo tear things like these np, do thoy not?" 'Yes. But I saved them. I wanted thorn to remind mo of the good times I paid for and never had. They represent experiences that belong to the poetia post and which will never be repeated. " "Yon mean that yon are going to stay away from the race track hereaft er?" "Yes." "That shows yonr good sense. It costs a lot of money in the end." " I don't begrudge the money so much. It wasn't my cupidity that rebelled. It was my pride." Detroit Free Press. Animal Remain In Coal. Most people know that con) Is full of vegetable remains, but comparatively few are aware of the fact that animal and insect bodies by countless millions also go to make np the great beds of fuel that are now being so extensively drawn upon. Tho vegetable impressions found in coal or in the shale just above the vein are very beautiful as well as numerous, not less than 1,500 different kinds of plants having been noticed in the enrboniforous seams in the different parts of tho world. Some of these plants orn very much like those uoV living, but the majority of thorn, even tliongh fonnd in Nova Scotia or Iceland, appear to be representatives of what uro now tTopionl varieties. Muny animals and insects aro also found fossilized and thoroughly pre served in the coal beds. The sy petrified creatures of the bygone age called the "coul period are of various kinds. Huge toadlike reptiles with beautiful teeth, small troo lizards, great fish with tremendnns jaws, tiny water mites, snails, "hundred legged" worms and thousnuds of insects of the grasshopper and dragon tly tribes ore also found. Tho curious fact is that there is not a siuglo representative of these fosrMized creatures now living. bt Louis He. public. Saddleback Ledge Light This is one of tho wildest and bleak' est of light stations of that savage re' gion, and, according to a story told there, it was once the scene of a remark' ably plucky adherence to duty on the part of a 15-yeur-old boy. He was the son of the koepcr, and on this occasion was loft alone in the tower while his father went ashore for provisions in their only boat. Beforo the latter could return a violent storm arose, and for the next three weeks there was no time in whioh tho keeper's boat conld have lived for a moment in the wild seas that raged about the lonely rock. Still the light was kept burning by that 16 -year old boy, who had little to eat and but scant time to sleep. Night after night for three weeks its steady gleam shone through the blackness of the pitiless storm uud gladdened the father s strain lug eyes. When the ordeal was ended, the hoy was so weak from exhaustion as to be barely able to speak. At the some time there was no prouder father nor happier young light keeper on the Maine coast than those who met on the storm swept ledge of Saddleback that day. Kirk Munroe in Soribner'a. Tbo Maaufaoturo of Paraffln. Paraffin is one of the most valuable produota of petroleum, and ItsmannfaO' ture has been brought to saoh perfection that it is soaroely possible to Improve upon it. By the most approved processes the wax is redistilled for the purpose ol reducing to the desired gravity and crystallizing the wax. Then the oil is frozen by processes similar to those em ployed for produolng artificial ice. The apparatus for this work is of the most complete and soientiflo construction. Enormously powerful pumps force the frozen oil into Alter presses and convert the wax into a solid cake. The uses of paraffin are manifold, and every detail of its manufacture is of the greatest in terest to all scientist. New York Lodger. Wondarful Mloaral Laka. The most wonderful lake of mineral water in the world it Lake Owen, Cal. It has a specific gravity of 1.076 and contains 7,188.24 grains of solid matter to the gallon. These grains of solid matter are divided among the various minerals as follows: Chloride of sodium (common salt), 8,843 grains to the gal lon; sulphate of sodium, SS8 grains; car bonate of sodium, X, 914 grains. Besides the above cuch gallon of the water baa its proportion of snlphate and phosphate of potassium, silica, aluminium, ealoi nm and iodide of magnesium, St Louis Republic Babylon was burned by Cyrus when taken B. C. 688, but the oity was re built with greater splendor than before. Its flnul destruction was by fire after a lege aud oaptura. The Farly Anabaptist. The tailor's trado was only permitted so far as It was necessary for clothing, but so far ns it or any other trado min istered to luxury, pride and nrrogiince it was abjured as "rootless work." Thus they could not bo goldsmiths, sil versmiths tir jewelers. Nor would they make any weapon of war. Tho trniles chiefly ptirsrird by tho Moravian Auabnptists wero clothmnk ing, cutlery, millkeeplng and shootuak ing. In the fields and in the woods nnd in tho vineyards many found healthy and happy occupation. Others worked as carpenters, joiners, cabinet makers, musona, blacksmiths, cnrtwrlghta, tan ners, saddlers, potters there was, in fact, hardly a nsefnl trade the communi ties did not practioe. Strnngc to say, nothing is snid of printing. Probably they feared to attract the notioo of their imperial persecutors. The Moravian Anabaptists, very different from tlioso who all over the German empiro and elsewhere commenced tho movement. followed the model held tip in the words, "He shall not cry, nof lift np, or cause his voice to be heard in the streets." They spoke of themsolves aa ' "the qnlet in the land." In clothmaklng and ontlery they ob tained such repute that at their final ex pulsion the authorities made special cf- , forts to infuse somo kind of energy Into the Christians." who hitherto had not been able to compete with the Ana- ' baptist cloth workers. It was even pro posed to invite Dutch cloth workers into the country. But it was by "good work" and the overcoming of adverse conditions that the Anabaptist commu nities had attained their eminence. Contemporary Review. Managua Managnn seems to have been made the capital of Nicaragua because tho two principal cities, Leon and Granada, wore always fighting for tho honor. Leon approaches the most closely to the true metropolitan character. It covers a wide extent of oountry. Its publio buildings lire admittedly the finest in ' Central A:n rica, and, besides showing a greater variety of race in its inhabit-'-ants, it is the nbode of the old aristoc racy. Then it has gone in for progress and education, and though it strikes one as a triflo incongruous to see even a rail way station in a place like this, to say nothing of the other adjuncts of civili zation, there is no blinking the foot that these same adjuncts are thero, and that they represent an advance. And the cathedral of cnt stone is a magnifi eent structure, covering an entire square, and fronting the whole width of the grand plaza. From the roof I saw the wide Pacific shining like a thin rim of silver on the western horizon, whilo stretching away to tho northeast I followed with out shifting my eyes the line of Loa Marabios, which aro nine volcanoes, some of them as perfectly tapered n aa Egyptian pyramid. Managua boa a cer tain advantage in being situated on tho lemon colored lake of the same name and in being the seat of government Good Words. A Story of Olo Bull. A curious tale of Olo Bull is told in a recent book on violins and violinists. It seems that in 1881, being then 81 years of age, the famous violinist wan dered to Paris. The cholera was raging and Malibran singing. Ho went to bear , her, and his landlord decamped with his possessions, inolnding his violin. He was speedily reduoed to extremity. Daring the last dinner that he was able--to pay for he made the acquaintance of a remarakblo man. To this stranger Ole Bull oonfided his miseries. At the conclusion the stranger said abruptly, "Well, I will do something for yon if yon have courage and 6 franca" "t have both," said Bull. "Then got tc, Frasoati's tonight at 10 o'olock, pass through the first room, go into the sec ond, where they play rouge et noir, and when a new taille begins, put yonr S franoa on rouge and leave it there." Boll did as directed, and when his 6 franoa had become 400 took them np after an episode with a woman who at tempted to take them. Red continued to win, and had be left his money longer he would have won an independent stun. The stranger, who was present at his el bow, was Vidooq, the French deteotive, already a European celobrity. Jonas Hanway. In Westminster abbey, in the west aisle, between the monuments of those two great men Warren Hastings and Richard Cobdcn, is one of Jonas Han way, whose chief claim to fame is that be was the first man in England who carried an umbrella. It is not probable, though, that this is the reason why he was buried in the abbey, since be was also famous in his day as a traveler and a philanthropist He journeyed much in the east, and wrote a most interest ing account of his life there. Afterward he came home, and, making a tour of England, wrote so dull a book about it that it drew from the celebrated Dr. Johnson the characteristic remark that "Jonas ucquired some reputation by traveling abroad and lost it all by trav eling at home." Max Bennett Thrash- -er in St Nicholas. There ace said to be over a thousand, women in New York- who, in one way or another, make their living by their pons. Leeuwenhoek and Humboldt both say that a single pound of the finest spider webs would reach around the world.
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