An independent journal devoted to the interests of Reynoldsville. Published weekly. One Dollar per year ' strictly in advance. VOLUME 12. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, MAUCH 9, 190L NUMBEB 42. More Riot. Disturbance of strlkors aro not near ly as grave as an Individual disorder f tho jstom. Overwork, loos of sleep, nervous tension will be followed by utter collapse, unless a remctly Is Immediate ly employed. There's nothing so etllel ent to cure disorders of tho Liver ur Kidneys as Electrio Hitters. It's 11 wonderful tonic, and effective nervlno ttnd the groatest " around medicine for run down systems. It dispels Nervousness, Uhoumatlnm and Neural gia and expels Malaria germs. Only 50o, and satisfaction guaranteed by II. Alox Stoke, Druggist. WANTKD SU'El'lAL HEIMiKXENTATIVE In till county and ililJolninK territories to reprcwnl anil silvrrtNo mi olil cstiiMlMii'd business (muse of nollrt financial hIhikIIiiii. Hiilnry t'.i wiM'kly, with expi'iiwt mll each Mondny ly rl s llri"t from liniulipinrtt-rs. Expenses ailviiiicuu I poult Inn pi't niiini'iit. We furnish everything. Aililress, THK CtlU'.MHI . im, Monnii Wilir., I'liicugo, III. VANTF.I 9KVK.KM. I NPt'STKTOt'H I'KH tton In cucli slum to irnvi'l for house esmli llslicil eleven yenrs iintl with ci Iiiikii I'ltpltitl, to cull upon mrri'luintM itiifl intents for suc cessful nnd pmHiuhln line, rerniiinetit en KiiKement. Weekly cash suhirj of iM nnd all traveling expenses nnd hotel hills tiflvunceil In cash each week; KxisTlcnec not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. THK NATIONAL, H.1J llciuhorn Street, Chicago. JJUGHES & POMROY. UNDERTAKING AND PICTUKK FKA.MING. The IT. P. Burial I.oiitfuo lias been tested and found all right. Cheapest form of In surance. Hccuro a comrai't. Woodward ItulldlitK, Iteyiioldsvllle, I'a. pRIESTER BROS., UNDERTAKERS. niack and while funeral ours. Main street, Itcyuoldsvlllu, I'a, Girls Wanted To letrri Clothpicking and Quilling. Apply to Enterprise Silk Comply V Reynoldsville, I'cnn'ii. . V TUG RsUilO!(iSVlll6 Brl6K&TH6G0. ReunoI(lsv!!i6. Pa. Manufacturers of Fancy Red and 3uf f Front Brick, Vitrified Paving Bricks , and-Blocks, Sidewalk Pavers, Common Building Brick, Building Tile, &c. Estimates on construction oheor fully furnished. Inquiries receive prompt attention. Correspond ence Solicited. v v To Methodists Patronize the Best and Cheapest The Pittsburg Ketabllhed 1883. ltEV. V. W. SMITH, Jt.D., Editor. Organ of tbe Methodist Episcopal Church in Western Ponnsylvania, East ern Ohio and West Virginia. Able articles on all the live questions of tbe day. Tbe contributors Include tome of the most eminent writers of the church. The weekly exposition of the Sunday school lessons is unexcelled, Interest ing news from all the churches. Special attention (riven to the Kp worth League and Young Folks' De partments. ' . Terms only 11.00 per year in advance. AH Itinerant Ministers of the M. E. church are agents, to whom subscrip tions may be paid. Sunt three months on trial for 25 cents. Sample copies sent free. Mention tl.U paper. Address : W, L Dixon, CbrlslUu Advocate, Pittsburg, Pa. Christian Advocate A Omul t'lnce ttt Avoid, In the northern Hlmn slates, on the bonier of Iltiruin, there la a tribe called tbe Wild Wits. These people propitiate with hmunn skulls the demons whom they worship. Outside every village In their country there arc many posts, all In one line, docked with httnmn skulls. A nlelie Is cut In the bnek of each post, w-llh a ledge on which the skull enn rest nnd grin through a hole In front of It. Every vtllngo has n dozen and some its ninny as a hundred of these bend posts. Fresh skulls are In sflcclnl request ut harvest time nnd are pur chased for large sums, those of distin guished visitors being particularly desired. She Shut. A story Is told of Count SebouvnlofT. n former Russian ambassador to Kng liiiul. lie greatly admired Englishwo men nnd was heartily nnnnyed when ho offended any one of them. Willie he wns In London he lenrned English, nnd. having henrd one famous English beauty sny 'Shut up!" to nnother. he Imagined It to be a phrase of polite agreement, such ns "Sny no more." In this sense he himself addressed It to nn Illustrious Indy the next night at dinner, to the lady's consternation, and his own when later he discovered his mistake. I'lnycrt nn Orsrnn, The little daughter of n well known New York mtislclai wns much chn grlii Ml the other day by tbe Ingenuous remark of a "now friend." Suld the little girl proudly: "My father is nn orgnnlst." "And does be have a luonkeyj" wns the prompt rejoinder. Novelty Excited Cariosity. Owtlalght-I had nn awful time thinking up nn excuse to give my wife when I got home from the club last night. I.iiMhman Did she demand one? Owllnlght Of course. I got home so early thnt it piqued her curiosity. Ex change. k A Parallel. An old farmer said to his sons: "Boys, don't you wait for sotnetJiln to turn up. You might Jest ns well go nnd sit down on n stone In the middle of n meadow with n pull 'twlxt your legs and wait for it eow to buck up to you to be milked." Ills l lr.l Mind. Abner Stone had lived "Inland" all his days and knew all there was to be known about pork uud beef as articles of food. His acquaintance with the products of the sen, on the other hand. Was very slight. Once, however, when at the seashore he was Introduced to shad nnd asked how he liked It. "Well." said tbe old farmer, with a hmve attempt at a smile, "I cale'late I shell when I get kinder wonted to It. mclilio, but It does seem, Jest at fust, ye know, cnnsld'nble like tryln' to e it a paper o' buttered pins!" Tragedy Averted. ' "Just in the nick of time our little boy was saved" writes Mrs. W. Wat kins, of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneu monia had played sad havoc with hlra and a terrible cough sot In besides. Doctors troutod bint, but. he grew worso evory day. At length we tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. Ho's now sound and woll." Everybody ought to know, it's tho only sore cure for Coughs. Colds and all Lung diseases. Guaran tied by H. Alex Stoke, Druggist. Trice 50c and 11.00. Trial bottles free. - t m , . "Do It To-day." The time-worn injunction, "Never put off 'til to-morrow what you can do to-day," ft now generally presented in this form : "Do it to-day 1" That Is the terse advice we want to give you about that hacking cough or demoralizing cold with which you have bean strug gling for several days, perhaps weeks. lake some reliable remedy for It to-day and let that remedy be Dr. Boscheo'a German Syrup, which ha beun In use for over thirty-five yoars. A few doses of it will undoubtedly relieve vour cough or cold, and lt,s continued use for a row days will cure you completely. No matter how deop-sealed vour couirh. even if dread consumption has attacked your lungs, German Syrup will surely effect a cure as It bas done before Id thousands of apparently hopeless oases of lung trouble. New trial bottles, 25c: regular size, 75o. At all druggists. H. Alex. Stoke. a.www r-,....... j lll WW WW HEREDITARY RANK. Precedence In Knsrlnnd It Strnell mm American Girl. I knew a young American girl who, going to England under tho care of an ambassador's family and attending her first largo dinner party ai d looking almut her, selected ns the guest In the room who most Interested her one man of distinguished aspect, whom alio re solved to watch. When tho guests were ushered into the dining hall ac cording to the laws of precedence she found herself nt the very end of tbe brilliant procession ns one of two un titled plebeians In the room, assigned to the escort of the very mini who bad Interested her nnd who turned out to be Samuel Rogers, tho poet nnd patron of art nnd tho recognized head of lit erary society in England. She always said that she secured two things at that entertainment namely, tho most delightful companion that she ever had at a dinner party nnd, moreover, a lesson In the outcome of mere hered itary runk that would last n lifetime. Rogers' poems are not now read so much as formerly, but at thnt tlmo the highest literary honor a man could have was to dine with Rogers. Ho wns also one of the richest bnnkers iu Lon don nnd wns very possibly tho only person in the room who bnd won for himself a reputation outsldo of bis own little island, but bo wns next to nobody in 'that company, nnd the little American girl wns the nobody. Thom as Wentworth Hlgglnson In Atluntlc. SEED IS NATURE'S GEM. It Is the One Priceless Jewel In Her Treasure House, In nature's great treasure bouse the seed is tbe ono priceless gem. Cora pared to It tho great deposits of coal, the mlnos of silvor and gold and of diamonds and precious atones are as nothing. Man counts bis wealth In dollars and cents, In mining and rail road shares nnd In houses and lands, while his primal necessities are limited to food and clothing. Without these oil other tokens of affluence are Told. These Indeed are the sources of true wealth, and the grass of tho Held sup piles them nil directly or indirectly. The cereal grains wheat, rye, oats, barley, rice and Indian corn which are the seeds of true grasses, are con vertible directly into food. Tho succu lent lenves and culm of the wild grass es furnish sustenance to millions of rattle, sheep nnd goats and are trans formed by them into flesh, milk, wool and bides, thus Indirectly providing meat and clothing. They also protect the soil from flood and drought and lnndsllde. Sending their fibrous roots down among the shifting sands of the seashore, they bind the unstable par ticles Into a mass so dense as to check tho erosion of the waves. Thus grass, the synonym of frailty, is nblo to raise Its tiny green scepter against tbe de structive power of the elements. Out ing. A Kent netort. Dean Farrar soon after be went to Bt. Mnrgnret'a, Westminster, was din ing at Professor Jowett's and toward dessert took tip tbe parable against Dives, His voice rose higher and higher, be spread silence around blm, and be wns heard thundering out: "What I complain of as a clergyman is that I havo to do what no layman has to do. I have to beg and beg in vain. Fashionable Indies come to my church glittering with precious gems, aud yet they will not sacrifice one dia mond from their grand tiaras In order to save some en-lug sister from de struction." When bo finished the si lence grew sultry. All tbe hearers looked gloomily at their plates. Then Jowett. who bad been looking as though be meant mischief, squeaked out, "Whnt I object to as a clergyman Is that I bave to exaggerate sol" St James Gazette. Death Scenes In Poetry, Tocts are. If possible, worse offend ers In the matter of their death scenes than arc novelists. A man pulls a two dram vial of some poison from his breast, swallows the contents, proceods to make a 00 line speech without a pang or a gasp, staggers gracefully backward to a conveniently placed sent, drops upon it, clasps tho region of the heart with both bunds and dies after a little convulsive movement of tbe legs. Heart disease, too, carries off heroines In a fashion quite un known to doctors, nnd, although It Is of the variety known ns "broken heart," bus characteristics which must not bo generally associated with froc ture of so important an organ. Brit ish Medical Journal. klw sr vihgs m Pays 4 RerCent On Saring Accounts. Caeapoataded Bemt-Annuoily. Just as-Safe and Easy to Bank by MMl . ' Coming In Person. Ask Mow. fCT0 OVER 7,000.000. WOOD AND DIAMOND STRUfcTS, PITTSCURaM. PA. t Main? H tip e r ftl n ." Malays have very much the snmo Ideas of bad nnd good luck signs ns prevail In other countries. If one trips on the steps of his bouse or knocks bis bend n gal list the lintel when starting for a Journey he delays a day. If possi ble, for the accident portentls death. Kenrful 111 luck will attend a native who starts on a Journey lu tho rnlu, for the rain slgnlllea tears. As a swarm nf bees settling on or near a house In England brings good luck, so tho result Is the very opposlto iu Malay districts. A bird flying Into a Malay house de cidedly benellts the occupier, for, If cnttght, smeared with oil aud com manded to fly away with nil tbe ill luck and misfortunes of tbe bouse, all will be well. In Singapore we see Malay cottages n round us, here and there, yet few know tbe superstitions prevailing with regard to the building of these habita tions. 1'or Instance, if tho steps in front are by nu unlucky chance placed exactly under the center rafters It will mean quarrels nnd fighting under tho roof. A visitor to one of these dwell ings must never leun against the steps when talking. That would entnll a funeral from tbe bouse. This weird notion arises from the fact that cof fins are banded to men at tbe bottom nf the steps. London Times. A Joke He I. Iked. In the strain nnd excitement of trad ing on Wall street the brokers, says Mr. E. C. Stedman in tho Century Magazine, often relapse into wild mer riment and play boyish pranks. On one occasion an old Indian with a young brave, a boy nnd two squaws entered the gallery. At once the "floor" put forth every effort to break down their stolidity. A war whoop had no effect. A war dance did not arouse even a smile. At last a huldhcaded man was thrust into n ring of young fellows, his hands held behind blm, a knife drawn around his pnte, and the miiuimery of a futile attempt to detach bis scalp was en acted. This wns at Inst too much for tbe dig nity of the aborigines. The boy broke Into a broad laugh, In which tho squaws Joined; the young warrior grinned in spite of himself, nnd nt last the sem blance of grim humor overspread the face nf the ruthless old chief, who mny have been tho perpetrator of as many atrocities as Ueronimn. I.oiiilon Knirllnh n Ilnse Jnrsron. The vigor and purity of n language can only be preserved by tbe fashion nhlc class, the class whom In matters social everybody Imitates, speaking It well. Rut how can English be well spoken when some of tho greatest la dies speak the idlAm of Massachusetts through their tnmes and a lnrge pro portion of the men cough tho Idiom of Frankfort' from their throats? The constant babbling of broken English nt dinner tables and In drawing rooms Is becoming quite fatiguing, and as a result the English speak their tongue worse than it was ever spoken before. Everybody knows the temptation to speak u sort of bnhy pigeon English to a foreigner In the strange hope that it may be more Intelligible to him. This and the siting taught us by the Yankees have reduced tho English lan guage ns spoken by smart people to a base jargon. -Saturday Review. How One h'net Wna Discovered, In tho curly part of tho lust century an English buttoiimuker becume fa mous for the steel waistcoat buttons which ho used to manufacture with lines cut upon them for ornament. He gradually put tho Hues nearer and nearer together and observed thut us he Increased tho number of lines tho buttons became more nnd more irides cent He explained his discovery to a scientist, who began experimenting upon ruled plates of steel. Tho result was tho wonderful diffraction grat ing which is now used in plnco of tho ghiBS prism upon nil great telescopes to break tbe ordinnry ray of light Into Its primary colors. A Typical Bonaparte. Princess Matbllde was a typical Bonaparte. Reneath the skin of a grsnde dmne there dwelt the soul of a vlvantliere. Sho was generous and tempestuous. Something of a butt iu her prime, as a certain rather pro nounced passage In Lord Malmesbury's reminiscences shows, she wna uni versally admitted at the same time to possess taste and a knowledge of the arts. It was to her credit, too, that sho cared not a snap of her fingers for dynastic disputes. She wus on the friendliest of terms with the Due d'Au mulo and Is said to bave tried, but in vain, to conciliate some of tho stlffer brunches of tbe puzzle headed Bourbon fumlly. Altogether, she wus a woman who lived every moment of her life. Loudon Outlook. I Ilrnte Creation Wiser t Every living bird and beast strives Its utmost to cram itself with food be fore retiring for tbe uigbt, and this food is digested as the night progresses. The evening feed Is the feed of the day with the brute creation, and yet doc tors tell us to refrain from eating heartily ut night aud even advise us to retire to rest with a more or less empty stomucb. Are we following na ture wheu following this advice? Eng lish Country Gentleman. " THE PRINCE'S VRAITH. fn Anpnrltlnn Whose t'nmlnst Wns Slltn of Dentil. King (ItiHtaviis IV. of Sweden, who reigned In the early part of the Inst century, was taking supper one evening with the Prince of H:ilen nnd others, among tbciu a Count Loweiibjelm. Sud denly, halfway through the supper, tho king let drop bis knife mid fork anil, turning to Loweiibjelm, said, "I.ool;! Don't you see?" nt the same time gaz ing across the table. No ono under stood what be meant, nnd so he drop ped the subject. Later, after the l'rlncc of linden hud departed, the king said to his companions: "When I asked you whether you saw anything, I had myself distinctly seen the dou ble, or wraith, of the I'ritice of Itnden enter the room and, passing round the table, place Itself behind thnt prince's chair, where It quickly faded uwuy aud vanished. You know," added the king, "the terrible import attached In our country to such nppnrltlons, nnd, hav ing given you the key to what you may well have thought unaccountable con duct on my part, I now request you to keep strictly to yourselves what I have imparted to you." The following even-' Ing and at the same hour, according to Count Loweiibjelm, while the court was seated as usual at supper, tbe clut ter of horse's hoofs wns heard in the palace quadrnnglc, nnd a courier was speedily announced, who brought tld- Inira nf n illaiiMtrmia pnrrliifrn ncdilnnt In which the Prince of Itadeu had lost V his life. CALIFORNIA'S CHARM. How the Visitor Prom the East Flnnllr t'upllulntem. Yon will not find everything In south ern Cullfornln. You will miss the wide stretches of green in the open places, fur removed from the dusty cities, the noble trees, the clear streams of wa ter, the blue Inko nestled In among the pine clad mountains. Y'ou will miss that splendid mlrnelo tho change of the seasons, when your whole nature comes Into closer touch with the great mother hrnrt of nature than at any other time in all the year, You will miss much. Rut when you have been here a year, when month after mouth of rare nnd beautiful weather blend Into each other, when the sen wooes you and tho flowers charm you and the brown mountains beckon you nnd the soft air soothes you, after a year has passed you And there are some compensations for the lovely things you have left behind you. You come to realize that nature has done more for this stretch of sen and moun tain girt land tliuu she has done' for any other spot on the globe. You may have been charmed with Cullfornln when you came, you may have been captivated after you bad been here a year, you may capitulate nnd consent to be captured by the time two golden summers have stolen over you. The World Today, Hot 'Water. Cold blooded peope, who hove little thirst, will do well to make a business of drinking n certain amount of hot water every day throughout the win ter season. It lessens the tendency to take cold, Improves tho circulation and benefits coughs and insomnia. Ilcfore going to bed Is a very good time for this practice, as It warms up and relaxes tbe system, thus preparing the way for a good night's sleep. . Many cases of Indigestion, headache, neuralgia, cold hands and feet, can be cured In half an hour by drinking slow ly ono or two pints of water so but that it almost bums the throat Med ical Brief. Blnlnr I'oelrr. Tho Malnys possess a poetical na ture and, like the Japanese, regnrd the writing of poetry as an art to be as pired to by anybody. Short couplets aro their delight, especially those with a llttlo moral attached. Ono founded on tbe weather tends to comfort a per son who has been badly treated: "Now it Is wet, now it is flno. A day will come for retaliation." Then, again, of lovers they say, "As tbe owl sighs longingly for the moon." A young and pretty brldo they speak of as bo . Ing "llko a sarong not yet unfolded," ; an apt Illustration when one thinks of the bright colors of new sarongs. I Condensed Milk Lack Water. j Steam emanating from boiling milk , if condensed would become water. ( This may be seen in the manufacture of condensed milk, which Is only ordl ! nary milk boiled down until tbe water Is out of It. If a liquid which contains solid bodies In solution be evaporated, the Bollda are left behind. That this Is so mny be shown by adding to wa ter thut is to bo distilled a trace of magenta and a little Bait. The dis tilled water has no taste and is color less. The mugeuta Is generally de posited upon the sides of the boiling vessel. A Scotch Taoth. Dentist (after struggling for twenty minutes In a vain endeavor to extract tho tooth) I must say you you have the firmest tooth I ever bad to deal with. 1'utlunt I'm in nae hurry. It's grauu' practice for ye, an' it'll teach ye that we maun a' work fsr or twin'." Quickness Is ilclntlve. The careful A m. Tic. :n observer soon finds that the standard of quickness Is to be determined In England, ns every where else, by the point of view. Peo ple who go slowly on now ground mny turn out to be quick enough when wholly tit home with auy particular line of thought. How odious nnd complicated, for in stance, seems to nn American observer the computation of pounds, shillings mid pence! It seenis strange that any nation should consent for u day to em ploy anything but n decftnnl currency. Yet with what lightning rapidity does ft London bookkeeper make his com putations! What a life of tedious for mality seems that of an English hoime servant! Y'et there was no slowness of Intellect In thnt footman in an earl's family who. when his young lord fell over the banisters nnd the next of kin culled to ask If the elder boy was hurt, answered promptly, "Killed, my lord!" thus accomplishing In an Instant the transfer of tho title appertaining to an earl's eldest son and heir only. Thom as Wentworth Hlgglnson In Atlantic. A Prerlone Mnnuscrlpt. There Is now In St Petersburg the oltlest known MS. of the New Tes tament in Ureek, saved from destruc tion by the merest chance many years ago. Crossing the hall of a convent nt the foot of Mount Sinai, Constantino Tlschendorf saw a basketful of parch ment leaves on their wny to be burned. Two baskets had already gone, he wns told, nnd all that he could secure for himself was a small bundle of odd leaves. But the monks, now Interested In the "waste paper," saved the rest from the fire, nnd nine years after, on a return visit to the convent, Tlschen dorf found thnt the Stewart bad, wrap ped In a red cloth, "a bulky kind of vol ume," which proved to be the whole of the New Testament, with parts hitherto unknown, nnd parts of the Old, which hod long been sought. Ho begged the volume for tho czar, and today It lies, well preserved In spite of Its 1,600 yenrs of age, among the treasures of the Russlun capital. London Mall. Tenting- a Horse's Erea. The unsuspecting farmer is often "bit" by the professional horse trader In having n horso with defective sight palmed oil on blm. The trader makes a John L. pass at the horse's eye wltb his fist, and the forco of the air causes the horse to bat or blink his eyes, though he mny be totally blind In one eye und wenk In the other. If the farmer will blindfold one of tbe animal's eyes and make gentle pnsses at five aud ten feet from it, bo can tell how strong tbe animal's sight Is in thut eye. Then blind the examin ed eyo nnd go through the same proc ess with the other. This llttlo bint mny save you getting the "small end" of a swap. Honrs nnd Lack. As strong as the superstition of Fri day is that concerning certain hours in European and oriental countries. In l'arls the superstition Is so prev alent that an enterprising business is that of selling enrds on which are printed the hours that should be avoid ed. Tho famous Gambotta consulted a reader of cards as to the auspicious day for embarking on any Important enterprise. President Carnot was skeptical of such tilings, and he chose an unlucky hour for his Journey to Lyons, where he was assassinated. American Queen. Sir Ilower da Corerler. Ralph Thoresby, writing in 1717 of tbe family of Calverley of Colverley, Yorkshire, says: "Roger was a person of renowned hospitality, since at this tlmo the obsolete tune of 'Roger a Calverley" is referred to him. He was a knight nnd lived in the time of Rich ard I." Tills passage carries the date of Ilia origin of the tune back to about 111MI. The Spectutor in a description of Sir Roger, now called "de Coverley," says, "His great-grandfather was the inventor of the famous country dance which is called after him." A Matter of Doubt. A minister In a certain city said: "My brethren, the collection will now be tukeu for my expenses for a trip, for I am going away for my health. The more I receive the longer I can stay." The largest collection ever made lu thut church was taken. And now the question under discussion is whether the slzo of the collection was a compli ment to the preacher or much the re verse. Maxima For All Pnrpoaeo, "Remember, my son," suld the pru dent man, "thut a penny saved is a penny earned." "That's so," replied the reckless youth. "The trouble wltb me Is thut I am always getting hold of the wrong proverb. I was thinking,. 'Nothing venture, nothing have.' "Washington Stur. Tbe Terrible Boy. The Mother Eunice, was there any kissing In that pantomime you and the others wero rubearslug in tbe parlor lust evening? The Daughter Why, of course. Herbert and I bad to kiss, but It wus lu pantomime. Johnny No, It wasn't, uiauimu. I heard HI Chicago Tribune. NAPOLEON'S POLICE. I'ber Were Well Watched to Insnr n Full Mrnenre of Dutr. During the reign cf Emperor Napo leon I. at a dinner In Tarls the conver sation turned upon the emperor and his government. Olio of the company remarked thut ho wns n great man, but was too fond of war. Wheu the pnrty broke up, a gentleman who was present requested to speak In private to the person who had made that ob servation. "Sir," Btiid bo, "I am sorry for It. but I must request you to go with mo to tho police." "Why?" said tbe other In tho grcntest apparent nlann. "I have Bald nothing against the emperor but whnt every ono must acknowledge, thnt lie is too fond of wnr. There can be no hurra in that" "With that I have nothing to do. You must go with mo to the police" The other now begun to show the strongest symptoms of fear. Ho entreated the police agent In the most pathetic lan guage to have compassion on him. Tho other, however, stood unmoved by all bis solicitation, when suddenly the man rose from his knees and burst Into a laugh, to tho utter astonishment of the Informer. "You think! you have caught me," snld he. "You are a spy of tho police." So am I, and I was put over you to see whether you would 4o your duty." THE COST OF A LEGACY. Sometimes It Doesn't Par to Inherit Money In Italy. In Italy it appears to be a somewhat expensive affair to inherit money that Is, if it be a small sum. Not long ago a young man died in the little town of Romngna who left 1 lira 68 ctS-itcslml, or not quite 84 cents. This Bum, which bnd been deposited In the postofiice savings bunk, became the property of the young man's father. As the amount was so small, tbe fa ther thought it unnecessary to make a declaration of the legncy as tbe law prescribes, especially as the stamped paper on which the declaration must be made would cost about 22 centeslml more than tbe money Involved. Three months afterward he received a demnnd from the local state treasury for tbe payment of 14 lire 48 centeslml (nearly $3). Thinking a mistake had been mnde, he took no notice of this demand, with the result that later an official called upon him and demanded tbe immediate payment of 18 lire ($3.50). The father had not sufficient money In hand, so the official took pos session of the man's furniture. The cost of this seizure brought the total sum to 30 lire, which the poor man had to pay that same evening to avoid tbe sale of his goods by auction. AN EARLY AIRSHIP. It Waa Unlit In Eng-land la 1S8B, bat Wna a Fa 11 are. We are told by Teter Farley, who wrote as an eyewitness, that In Au gust, 1835, the Eagle was officially ad vertised to sail from Ixmdon with gov ernment dispatches and passengers for Farls and to establish direct communi cation between the capitals of Europe. This early type of airship was 160 feet long, 50 feet high and 40 feet wide, and Bhe lay in the dockyard of the Aeronautical society in Victoria road, near Kensington gardens, then quite a rural spot Built to bold an abundant supply of gas, she was covered with oiled lawn and carried a frame seventy-five feet long and seven feet high, with a cabin secured by ropes to tbe balloon. An Immense rudder and wings or fins on each side for purposes of propulsion completed her fittings. The deck was guarded by netting. After all this preparation and adver tisement the Eagle never got beyond Victorln road, for Count Lennox and his assistants fulled to provide tho necessary motive power. The Barber's Pole. The origin of the barber's pole, Itself almost now a thing of the past, origi nated In the days of barber surgeons, when bloodletting was considered a panacea for most of the Ills that flash la heir to. The pole was used for tbe patient to grasp during the operation, and a fillet or bandage for tying up the arm. When the pole was not In use, the tape was tied to it and twisted round it, and then it wss hung up as a sign. At length, Instead of hanging out the actual pole used in operations, a painted one with stripes round it In Imitation of tbe genuine article and its bandages was placed over the shop. Dacha and Geese. Do geese "quack?" "No," says the observant critic; "geese do not quack, but they squack." It Is the ducks that quack, and the story of the goose go ing about from .day to day with a "quack, quack, quack," Is declared to be without good foundation. Thore Is, Indeed, quite a differen'.-o In the vo cabulary of these feathered creatures, but It requires a sharp ear to discover tbe difference. The Coat. Laura I don't know, George. It seems such a solemn thing to marry. v Have you counted the cost? George The cost, Laura? Tbe cost? Bless we, I've got a clergyman cousin thut'll mar ry us for nothlugl
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