flith Inrc f'nr sn I'onl. Catching gulls ii ml oilier sen" fowl by a halted hook nnil lino Is n barbarous practice which Is sometimes 11. sorted to by sailors. Tlie same method whs employed In former time for catching herons. A Iiiiik lino of silk, villi a strand of wire twisted In, was fixed to n stono n t m? end ti ml to hool.s nt the other. Tlio bull was then ptil out In shallow water, whore tlio bird nook their food, either In n stream or nt the edge of n pond. When tlio heron pouch ed tho bnlt tlio hooks lodged In his Kiil lot, nod tlio strand of wire In tlio lino prevented It from bolus billon throiiKh. 1 npnrriniinltle, "In what fiimlly wore you Inst cm ployed V" asked Mrs. Fields-James. 'In tlio fntnlly of Mrs. Iloscoiiimon," replied tlio applicant for n position of Kovornoss. "Mny I nsk why you li ft hor?" "Hor superficiality nnd luck of ton ernl lnfonnntlon rendered my poslilon unendurable. She was unaware of tho distinction between an anachron ism and nn anomaly." (,'IiIchko Trlb- Tlie Mule's I'lnclil Slnle. "Is that your niiilo?" asked tho man who was KohiR fishing. "Vns, sir," said tho colored man who was sitting on a Job by tho road. "Ioe he kick?"' "'Deed, inlstuh, bo ain't pit no cause to kick. He's glttln' his own way right nlong. I'm do one tint's bavin' do worry nn' dltlionlty." Exchange. Alt She Wanted. "Shu's n lovely girl and so simple In lier tastes. I told her that 1 hadn't much of nn Income jot, but that I hoped I could provide for her every want." "And whnt did she sny?" "8he said thnt would bp all she could ask." Cleveland 1'laln Dealer.- The Cure that Cures Coughs, II Bronchitis and Incipient " Consumption Is en ifcMVvW AnjaVi: 25&50tW European Tea and Coffee Co. SIDEBOARD Given Away Free to Our Patrons. You are cordially invited to our store nnd be con vinced tliat we are the only store that gives you the best. Wc don't handle any thing but Tea, Coffee and Sugar. OUR PRICE LIST Coffee 15, 23, 23 and 30 cents. Teas 18, 23, 35, 40, 45, 60 and 90 certs. Granulated Sugar 5c per Pound. EUROPEAN TEA & COFFEE CO. In the Foster Buildinpr. X MAKVELS OF MEMORY 60ME REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF THE POWER OF RECOLLECTION. An Knajlahmaa Whose Wondorfnl (lft of llrtrntlon llrntiRltt lllaninjr to VnKnlre A llrporlrr Who Ulil Rot Have to Tnko Kotea. Extraordinary memories have at tracted tho nttontion of men In nil ages, nnd In those days n innn with n rctontivo memory Is considered to bo more or less gifted. Some good Instances of remarkable memories nro to be Katherod fiimi tho records of (.; recce nnd Homo. Tlicmls tocles, n famous Crock general. Is said to have known every citizen In Athens. No doubt (Mho, tho IComan emperor, owed much of his success to n remark, nlile memory, lie lenrned the nnnio of every soldier nnd olllcor In bis nrmy, nnd tliis, nmonff other things, rendered 111 in so popular that be wns nt leiiKtli nccialinod emperor. Hortenslus, tho Homan orator, Is snld to have been able, nftcr sitting n wholo day nt n public sale, to kIvo nn no count from mommy of nil things sold, with tlio prices nnd nninos of tho pur chasers. Coming to later times, tho following nnecdoto nlVords an instance of won derful powers of memory: An Eng lishman wont to Frederick tho Great of rrussla for tho express purpose of giving him nn exhibition of his powers of recollection. Frederick sent for Vol taire, who was then residing nt tho Prussian court. At tho king's request Voltaire read n long poem whlvh lie bad Just composed. Tho Englishman was present nnd was In such n position that he could hear every word of tho poem, though he was concealed from Voltaire's notice. After the reading of the poem Frederick observed to the nu thor thnt the production could not bo nn original one, as there was n foreign gentleman present who could recite every word of It. Voltaire listened In amazement to the stranger ns ho re peated, word for word, the poem which bo hail been at so much pains In com pos! mr, and, giving way to a momen tary outbreak of passion, bo tore the manuscript In pieces. lie was then In formed how the Englishman had be come acquainted with his poem, and his nngor being appeased be was will ing to do penance by copying down tlio work from the second repetition of the stranger, who was able to go through It ns before. There' lived In the sixteenth century nt radun n law student who had train ed his memory to such n high degree of perfection that be could recite 3(1. OoO words after once hearing them rend. Je;lc,liah Huxton, nn illiterate per son of the eighteenth century, used to put his memory to n curious use. On one occasion ho mentioned tho quanti ty of alo ho had drunk free of cost since ho was twelve years old and the names of the gentlemen who had given It to him. The whole Amounted to 5,110 pints. As ngnln showing that retentive gifts wore not found In the educated nlone, there is a notable Instance of "ltllnd Jnmlo," who lived some years ngo In Ptirllng. He was n poor, uneducated man and totnlly blind, yet he could actually repent after n few minutes' consideration nny verse required from nny part of the Hible, even the obscur est nnd least important. An Instance of a wager being won by n feat of memory was that of a person who repeated nn entire newspa per, advertisements ns well, after a single rending. The power of retaining events hns sometimes been ninnlfcst in a marked degree. A Inboring innn named Mc Cartney, nt fifty-four years of ago, claimed thnt ho could recollect the events of every day for forty yenrs. A. test wns made by a well known public man who had kept n written record for forty-five yenrs. The man's statement was fully corroborated In deed, to accurate wns his recollection thnt he could recnll without npparcut effort the state of the weather on nny given day during those forty years. Another Instance of a wager being won by a feat of recollection was thnt of Mr. Futter, who several yenrs ago was a well known tithe collector In Norfolk. He wagered thnt ho could recollect every word of a sermon that was to be preached nnd afterward write It out verbatim. Ho wns not seen to take notes and at the closo of the sermon retired to a room and wroto out the sermon. On comparison with the manuscript, which tho preacher had been asked to bring for the purpose, It was found to vary In one instnnco only, where a synonym bad been used, but In that Mr. Futtor was proved to be correct, for tho clergyman had a distinct recollection of substituting one word for the other In bis delivery. When reporting was forbidden in the bouses of parliament and any one seen to make notes was Immediately eject ed the speeches, nevertheless, were published In the public press. It was discovered that one Woodfall used to be present In the gallery during tho speeches and, sitting with bis head be tween his hands, actually committed the speeches to memory. They were afterward published. Lord Macaulny hnd a marvelous fa cility for remembering what bo read. He once declared that if by accident all the copies of Milton's "Paradise Lost" were destroyed be would be able to write 'Out tho wholo of this long poem without a single error. In fact, ho once performed the marvelous feat of repeating the whole poem, making only one omisklon. Charles Dickens, after once walking down a street, could remember the i names of all the shopkeepers and their I luslnessefl. London Spare Moments. Telegraph posts along a railway are arranged thirty to the mile. YELLOWSTONE PARK. fne Meet With atnrn'a Surprises There nt Ktery Tarn. Probably no nroa of equal extent contains so groat n number of natural objects "npable of mousing wonder, enlliitsbuin and awe ns nro found crowded together In the park. Its many scenic features of restful charm, found alongside nroas of never ending ncllvlty, with weird, grotesque sur roundings, surprise one nt every turn. Yellowstone lake, the largest sheet of Water in America nt so high nn eleva tion, with Its indented shore line nnd 1 in square miles of surface dotted with forested Islands, presents to lov ers of nature n series of plctnrcsqtio landscapes nncqualod upon nny other Inland waters. The far famed falls of tho Yellowstone, with their unique nnd marvelous rock sotting, nnd the Grand canyon, with Its majestic out lines nnd brilliant coloring, nro worthy of nil the praise bestowed upon them and merit a separate descriptive nrtl cle. More than n score of waterfalls and enseades, some of them of ex quisite grace and beauty, pour the wa ters of mountain torrents nnd plateau lakes from tlio uplands to the low lands. Many of them well deserve a visit, but their fame Is obscured by the real marvels of the Yellowstone. Again, the fossil forests, so seldom visited, toll n most interesting story of n burled plant world, of explosive erup tions of mud volcanoes nnd the grad ual piling up of erupted lavas nnd nshes. All those, enticing ns they seem, npwar Insignificant when com pared with the bydrotliermnl phenome na displayed ' In geysers, boiling springs, hot lakes, solfatarns and num berless fumnroles, which hnvo gained for tho park the appellation of the won derland of America. Unquestionably it Is this hot water treatment which the region has undergone that has de veloped most of the objects of Interest nnd made the park fatuous the world over. F.von the lake owes much of Its attract I voness to Its hot springs nnd paint pots, nnd the (Irnnd canyon would lack Its brilliancy of coloring nnd Its sculptured buttressed wnlls but for the long continued notion of hot as well as cold water. Arnold Hague In Kcrlhncr'H. PITH AND POINT. No grow n person should ever hnte a child. Any man who hns money can have lithographs printed claiming a big show. Tlio trouble with having a good word for everybody is that when you pay a compliment It doesn't count. Wo hope we are not lacking in sym pathy, but when they tell us that a fnt woman is "delicate" we laugh. After n mnn has been engaged three or four weeks ho begins to find oppor tunities to tnko sides in her quarrels. We don't know whnt it requires to become skillful nt repartee, unless It Is to think ns quick as when the baby has tho croup. Ever notice how people reach over the preserves nftor tho pickles? And how they insist on passing pickles in stead of preserves to others? Atchison Globe. qaerr Tastes. Speaking of mysterious tastes, that of n man who was recently before the magistrate nt Greenwich is not vcty ensy of explanation. Three weeks ngo n legacy of i:t0 was loft to him. The first' tiling lie bought, it seems, wns a set of billiard balls, nnd ho now hns nothing elso left to bIiow for the 130, which has disappeared nt the rate of 111 (Is. 8d. weekly. Why bllllnrd balls? It is a singular and rather Interesting form of craving. It is perhnps true thnt n billiard ball Is one of the very few perfect objects produced by mnn. It is nil of a piece, it is thoroughly ho mogeneous ns regards material, and It Is, or should he, faultless In form. Yet only a strong strain of mysticism in tho chnrncter would account for a man hungering nnd thirsting for billiard balls above all other earthly things.-' Loudon News. Eyelets Sold Itr the MUlloa. "Eyelets," snld a manufacturer, "are, llko needles, pins and matches, sold by tlio million Instead of by tlio pound. I don't suppose anybody could tell how many million eyelets are sold every year in New York, but tho number Is prodigious. Eyelets are made for a variety of uses, from tho huge wblto metal loops sewed Into tho corners of ships' sails to tho tiny eyelets for the dainty slipper of a baby. Tho greatest number of eyelets made are, of course, for shoes. They nro put up in boxes of 100,000, 250,000 nnd 500,000. Only thoso proportions are packed. They lost anywhere from $50 to $130 a mll flon." New York Times. Overheard on tha Pier. "Is this all?" demanded the custom houso inspector as he finished up Bluks' trunks. "Well, no," said Blnks. "I get a new wlfo over In Paris. That little woman over there with the pink cheeks is she." "All right." snld the inspector. "We'll have her appraised. She looks like a work of art." Life. Saved br Early Instruction Mrs. Crowfoot I'm glud we taught our boy Hiram never to loaf around comers. Mr. Crnwfoot Got another object lesson, Marin? Mrs. Crowfoot Yes. Tho paper Biiys a young man lost a fortune on a corner in Wall street Philadelphia Itecord. Bloodless. "I see Jeunlo Cayleigh Is to undergo another operation." "Doar mo! Appendicitis again?" "No. She's going to have her hus band amputated." Town Topics. "mystical number nine. It la n Trlnltr of Trinities and la Indicative of Perfection. ) Nine Is a trinity of trinities and In- J ulcntes ncrfectlnn or completion. Thoro nro nine earths, nine heavens, nlno gods, nine muses, nine worthies, nine crosses, nine points of the law, nlno rivers of hell, nine orders of nngels nnd nine circles of rank In ( lines so ciety. S.llton, in "Pnradlsu Lost," unjs: "The gates of bell are thrice threefold-throe folds are brass, three folds Iron nnd three folds iiilnuiantluo rock. They had nine folds, nine plates nnd nine linings." When the angels worn cost out of heaven "nlno days they roll." A cat has nine lives. There are nlno crowns in heraldry. Possclnti is nine points of the law. The whip for punishing evil doers had nine tails, tlio superstition being that n Hogging by n trinity of trinities would bo snored nnd more etlicacloiis. In order to see the fairies, mortals are directed to put nine grains of wheat on n four leaf clover. The hydra had nine heads, Leases wore formerly granted for HDD years. F.von now they run for ninety nlno years, the dual of n trinity of trinities. To see nine magpies Is most unlucky, us the old Scotch rhyme goes: One's n snrrow. two's mirth, Three's a wedding;, four's n birth. Five's n chrlstunlnR. six a dearth, Seven's henven, eiKllt Is hell, And nine's the devil hts nne sel'. If n servant 11 mis nine green peas In n pen pod she may lay It on tlio lintel of the kitchen floor, and the first man 1 lint enters Is to be her cavalier. When the loving cup goes round it is the custom to drink n throe times three tonst to the one most highly hon ored or tenderly loved. As the weird sisters in "Macbeth" danced round the caldron they sang, "Thrice to thlno nnd thrice to mine nnd thrice again to make up nine," nnd then declared "the charm would up." The nine of dia monds was considered the curse of Scotland. A TOBACCO LEGEND. The Story of I he Way In Willed Mnn (llitnlnvd the Went. An ethnologist tells an luterastlug story ns to how tobacco was llrst ob tained by man. according to the tra ditions of the Menominee Indians: "Olio day the god hero, Manahozo, was on a Journey, when bo perceived a delightful odor. It seemed to come from a crevice in the cliffs high up on a mountain side. On going closer he found a tavern which was occupied by n giant. In fnct, the glnut was tho tenant of the mountain, and from the mouth of the cave a passage led down Into the very center of the hill, where there wns a large chamber. Around the chamber were stacked great quanti ties of bags tilled with curious dried leaves. From the leaves proceeded tho delicious fragrance. "Thoso loaves were tobacco. Once a year, the glnut explained, nil of the spirits cnnio to the mountain for tho purpose of Binoklng this cxqulslto weed. Hut It wns not possible to give nny of it nwny," snld the ethnologist. "Nevertheless Manabozo watched for nn npporunlty nnd, snatching up one of the bugs, lied, closely pursued by the glnut. The thief leaped from peak to peak, but the giant followed so fast ns to finally overtake him. Ho Mana bozo turned upon him and, upbraiding him for his stinginess, transformed him into a grasshopper. "That Is the reason why tho grass hopper is always chewing tobacco., Manabozo took the bagful of leaves nnd distributed them ninong bis friends, tho ancestors of tlio Indians of today. Since then they have bad the use and enjoyment of the plant." llovr Ilacon Settled lllni. A story that is told of Leonard Ila con, who was one of tho best known theologians in New England In tho lat ter half of the nineteenth century, Il lustrates the absurdity of a popular kind of argument. Dr. Ilacon wns at tending a conference in ouo of the Now England cities, and soma assertions he made in hts address wcro vehemently objected to by a member of tlio opposi tion. "Why," ho expostulated, "I never heard of such a thing In nil my life!" "Mr. Moderator," rejoined Hacon calmly, "I cannot allow my opponent's ignorance, however vast, to offset my knowledge, however small." Harper's Weekly. A Queer Custom, Between tho mountains of India and Persia is a powerful tribo among whom nn extraordinary custom pre vails. Women's rights have apparent ly received full recognition, for tho la dles of tho tribe can choose their own husbands. All a single woman has to do when she wishes to change her stnto Is to send a servant to pin n hand kerchief to the bat of a man on whom her fancy lights, and ho Is obliged to marry ber unless ho can show that bo Is too poor to purchase ber nt tho prlco her father requires. Easy Explanation. "How do you account for tho fact, asked tho doctor, "ns shown by uctunl 1 investigation, thnt thirty-two out of every hundred criminals in the country are left handed?" "That's easily accounted for," said the professor. "Tho other sixty-eight are right handed." Chicago Trlhuuo. flearlnir the Expense, "Does your husband keep any horses?" - "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torklns. "lie keeps a number of them. Hut other peoplo own them nnd manage the races." Washington Star. Things which are so heavy on a wo man's conscience they cause it to sag don't leave an Impression on a man's. CONDENSED MILK. lis Dlacnvevr Was Ilroacht Ahont by m Woman's Experiments. "How mid when wns condensed milk discovered?" said n milk dealer. "Well, thnt is nil ensy question, known to all vendors of the article. "It chanced Hint in 1834 tho Journey from New Orleans to Now York was n considerable trip. A certain lady Mrs. Albert Cnshlngnr bad n sick baby, nnd on account of thnt condensed milk was discovered. "Mrs. t'ashlngor's bnhy wns so 111 that she realized that It would be nec essary to mako a trip to New York to receive expert medical nttontion If she hopisl to save the child's life. Hut to travel that long distance the child hnd to have milk. Milk wouldn't keep fresh more than n few hours. So there she was, kept back from making the trip merely because she could not sup ply the child with fresh milk. "In hor despair she begnii to experi ment to see If she could not preserve milk the same as slio did Jelly or any thing else. She tried several different methods and finally hit upon a plan which seemed to glvo satisfaction. So she preserved several big Jars of the at HIT. put It upon n sailing vessel nnd made the trip. The child fed upon the milk and wns nourished. "In New Y'ork several men lonrnod of her discovery. They tried to make some of tho condensed milk In the man ner that she hnd told them, but fulled. They followed her to New Orleans, and there she unwittingly unfolded ber valuable secret. On tho island of Gal veston those men started a smtill fac tory, nnd there tho llrst suluble con densed mill: wns made. . "The woman died poor. The manu facturers made n fortune. Now con densed milk Is sold In every part of the world." Louisville Herald. CHAMPAGNE MAKING. The Methods Thnt Are t aril In Producing- the Wine. It Is to tho Invention of the chntn pngne cork that the world owes cham pagne, according to Court Purveyor .1. Froinm of Frankfort, (lurmany. Tills wine is said to have been made successfully by the butler of n monas tery near Eplnay, in France, in 1043. Until the early part of the nineteenth century sparkling wines wore made only in the French province of Cham pagne. Next to the wine, carbonic ncld forms the most Import nut part of cham pagne. The picking of the grapes used requires groat cure to prevent discolora tion. The grapes should not contain too much acid nnd coloring matter, but considerable sugar. In order thnt the grapes Bhould not become warm, thereby fermenting pre jaturely, picking is done In the early morning hours. The grapes nre then placed In the press nt once mid t lie juice squeezed out very gently.' After twelve to twenty-four hours it Is run Into vnts, where Its impurities nre re moved. After the first violent fermen tation Is over the young wine Is put In cool cellars, Into barrels of from 1J5 to 130 gallons. Toward the end of De cember the young wine Is drawn off In order to separate It completely from the yeast. The wine Is then mixed with wines of other yenrs nnd kinds. It Is then bottled and tho progress of fermenta tion carefully watched, the bottles bo ing opened to "disgorge" the albumen, yeast nnd other products of fermontn tlfin which It Is necessary to get rid of. It Is then sweetened nnd stored In cel lnrs to mature for the market. One Kind of Soft Answer. It lacked but fivo minutes of tlio time for the train to start from the down town station, nnd the suburbanites wore hurrying Into it when a man In the garb of a mechanic snt down by the side of u finely dressed passenger In ono of tho seats In the rear car, took a paper from his pocket and began to read. "Plenty of empty Beats in here yet, aren't there?" growled tho man in flue raiment, moving along grudgingly. "Y'os, Blr," pleasantly replied tho newcomer, "but It will bo crowded pretty soon, and I thought I'd pick out a gentleman for a seat mute while I had a chance." "Humph!" grunted the other mnn, uncertain whether to feel compliment ed or Insulted, but realizing the hope lessness of trying to make any fitting rejoinder. Y'outh's Companion. A Matter of Business, Tho ladles of the club were closely grouped about tho speaker of the aft ernoon, a remnrknbly successful wo man, in whom commercial nnd literary ability wcro admirably bnlnnced. "Tell us in a few words how to be Successful," said ono of the ladles in sistently. "To be successful," snld the success ful one, "all we women hnvo to do Is to mnko ns much of a business of our own business ns wo do of tho things that are none of our business." Comforting. "Gcorgo, dear," sho snld, with a blush, "do you know thnt Mr. Simpson asked me last night to be bis wlfo?" "Well, I like his impudence! The Idea of proposing to an engaged young lady! What did you sny to him?" "I told him thnt I was very sorry ln deed, but ho was too Into." Tit-bits. A Leading Question. Forent Hus that man asked you to marry blm, Julia? Daughter Not in so many words, but It bos amounted to that. Last night he asked me If my dad was as well off as they say he Is. Boston Transcript. Learn how to listen and you will , profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch. Gome! Take your Hon of our large stock of FuMliiire and Garpeis Buyers of fine Carpets will be pleased to learn that we have secured a large lot of fine Carpets in new and up-to-date designs in Wilton, Fine Axminster, Fine Wilton Velvet, Velvet and Tapestry. Also t large line of Rugs, same grade as carpets. Remember we always carry a full line of Mattings, Linoleums, Oil Cloths, Utc. J. R. HILLIS & CO. 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