over. There Is » Constant Flow of Unconscious Thoupgkt While We Rieep. The physiologists of the first half of the century and Bme more modern writ- “ers expressed the belief that dreaming omy oconrred at the moment when cone pcimendes hogan to resume i185 sway. Battin The North Americar Review, Pr. Lenis Robirsam says that modern frivestizators accept the theory of the mietant vaiciang and believe that thers §4 i cortain amount of cerebral action hole icd of sleep, and the vost mo ty of ‘onr dreams to knowledge. He dnrine the Ww that s peYer : this rent of ides which passes throngth the sleeping brain, and which only reveals jtself to the comscions ego when some disturding olement intervenes. may compare it to gn invisible and si- Jent river, flowing! by withont betray- | ing its presence, save where there isa splash of a fish or df a falling rtome, 7 soine foaming eddy where a rock the smooth surface.’ Dr. Robinson's article is Ic rd in. teresting. The conclusions hich he arrives are as follows: Gwing to the nnceasing unconscious cerciralon which is a necessary concomitant of oar, power of intellect, the brain is always in part awake, and is especially active fn shifting memorized matter. The cerebral centers compected with the | _ sense organs ars continmally and inde | - pendently employed in stimnlating im- pressions from without. Certain of the senecs, especially that of bearing. re :- main open to external influences during | sleep and convey actual vibrations to the brain. There is an active and parely | jnvoluntary predisposition on the part . of the mental apparatus to compare and collate all the messages which come, | ‘or seem to come, from without, through | the sepes channels, and to collate these agnin with what is brought to the con- | geicirsness by involuntary recollection. | Associated with this is a tendency to | comhine the evidence so collected into 8 coherent whole, and to make the re- sult of either explain the more em- | phatic thoughts or i or elise amewer sotae questions which occupied | the attention before sleep began. *‘No | voluntary power exists during sleep to | pick out fiom the jumble handed in ! that which is relevant to the problem t to be solved, and juet as thers fs no | power to discriminate real from false impressions at the outset, so, through- oat a dream, we are completely obliv- “jous to the most glaring fallacies and | inconsistencies.” — Rochester’. Post-Ex- | _ * Had No Eyes, but He “Saw.” i ~**I should like to have the key of the | unoccupied house, —- Wharton street,” | requested a well dressed man as 13 crane onY wi | FEE a. i tate agent. 5 i “Yes, sir,” and the key was handed noticed that be kept prodding the with his cane as he walked. Bat gait was almost a8 brisk and ab straight | as though he had no affliction what- | ever. This was remarked as he left the | . He returned a baif hour . step as quick as ever and with business in every motion. *‘I like the honse,” : ‘be said, as he handed over the key, “but there is considerable repairing to | § be dome. The paint should be renewed. ~The front bedroom and dining room are sadly in need of repapering,’’ and 80 be went on until he had examerated a half | dozen things that were necessary to be |. : ! Jovoe down in my district, I know that . ‘nine chances to ome crawfish have done. It afterward transpired that be had acquired all his knowledge simply by the sense of touch. His examination * had been as thorough as though he bad | bad the nee of two good eyes. It was really a remarkable performance.— Philadelphia Call : ; 1 { i i Long Talks. , Parliamentarians and orators in gen- eral claim that no man could talk co- berently on a single subject for more | than six hours, yet hundreds of cases to . the contrary could be cited. When De Cosmos defended the settlers’ land bill £ "in the lower house of the British Co- ! lombian parliament, he talked contin- ually for 26 bours. The act confiscat- ing the property of De Cosmos’ constit- | tents had to be passed by noon of a cs - | tain day; De Cosmos was the only .de- fender. He took the floor at 9:55 o'clock | the day previous to the date when the | Jaw would become a dead letter and | kept it until 12:08 the following day. | It is said that his tongue and lips were | cracked in hundreds of places and his | shirt front covered with blood. A | speech 11 hours longer than the Britislf Columibian’s famous arguinent was de- | ~ livered in the Roumanian chamber of ! _ depuities in 1887. It was on the ocea- | sion of the impeachment of ex-Miuister | DREAMS PROMPTINGS. ~~ there is an nnbroken cur. “We 3 / - be em- | tered the office of a down town real es- | As the caller departed it was | floor | very his | later with a | | wet days, causing an expansicn of the ler. © A BIT OF RAINMAKING. An Effort In the Hebrides Islands That Was Brimful of Sauces. the English navy, who lived ‘many years in the Hebrides islands. tells the following interesting tale regarding the work of a professional native rsio- maker. Toward the end of the year, just after yam planting, there came as anusual period of dronght. so that an in- land tribe in the island of Ambrym went tn its rainmaker and demanded bis froreediate attention thereto. He at once s<t to work to weave a. srt of hurdle of the branches and ‘jeaves of a tree famed for its rain pro. ducing qaalities, which, being finished, was placed, with proper incantations, at the bottom of what shonld have been a water hole in the now parched bed of the monmtain torrent. There it was then beld in place with stones. Down came the rain; nor did it cease for 48 | hours, by which time it had become too march of a good thing. Soon the rain producing hurdle was quite 10 feet un- der water in the seething torrent, and | the people, much to their dismay, saw | that their yams and the surrounding earth were beginning to wash away down the hillsides. : “The lieutenant continoes: “Now mark what comes of fooling with the elements! No man of the hill country was able to dive to the bottom of the water hole to ptll up the hurdle with its. weight of stones, so the merciless “rain still held on. At last the shore na- tives, accustomed to swimming and div- ing, heard what the mater was, and some of them coming to the assistance the compeller of the elements was re- covered from its watery bed and—the ‘rain stopped!” : It is such a coincidence as this, hap- pening perhaps once in a decade which canses this people, mow thoroughly i to refuse to give up their rain doctors, although all other out ward forms of rank superstition appear to have been freely abandoned. — Louis ville Courier-Journal. = The catalps never shows the ‘‘sere and yellow leaf” in sotunm like the samac, hard maple, etc. for the rea- son that its leaves are caught in a state by the first severe green . 2 frosts. In ome night their bright green | is turned to a dingy black. This sod- den check gorges the cambium layer and new wood of the stem with water. An excess of water swells the proto- plasm of the cells to such an extent as to rapture the inelastic bark, and in trees where the cell structare of tbe wood is not ripe the crack will extend into the wood often with a noe like an explosion. . This often occurs in the fall when it is not cold emough to stop plowing. Sometimes we bave much “loss in nursery in this way with varie- come. Sometimes indeed it injures hardy varieties. [n such cases the swelling of the protoplasm comes from the water sbsorbed at the ground sur- face when combined wet and cold come together in aatamn. The cracking of cherries and pears comes from the same cause——that is, by abscrbing water on protoplasm. With trees the best treat- mhent is fo cover the rapture with moist clay and then wrap to exclude the air as much as possible. —Jowa State Reg- The Crawfish and the Leveea. “Whenever 1 hear of a hreak in the caused it. The assertion may sound slightly exaggerated, but it is a fact pevertheless that the troublesome litte crawfish work more danger to the le | yees than does the water. On a big rise, | when the bed of the river is stretched | from embankment to embankment, the | crawfish barrow into the levees and { live there in the moist earth. multiply faster than maggots and loosen They -up the earth worse than moles. “The levee may be completely sodded | with grass and you see no external evi- ' dence of the damage going on within, but when the next big rise comes you will see it. I have frequently known | the water to break through the leves two or three feet from the top, and yon can at- tribute it to nothing but the destrnctive work of ccawfish. This was particular- I* true of the break at Offut’s in 1889, when a portion of the town of Green ‘ville was sabmerged. Tho builder of the levee in the future will have to take into account the crawfish as one of bis most stubborn foes." — St. Louis Giobe Democrat. = ie A Swearing. It may be said withont exaggeration hat swearing forms an important fac- tor in the masculine vocabulary of pearly every civilized nation. Great Lientenact Boyle T. Somerville of ties not fully ripe when the first frosts Bratiano, the leading depaty support- | o . rt ing the articles of impeachment talking SIRE ike Sunken - >e omy w Ui A “eantiniously for 37 hours, Exc ! epithets with their etymology would : A _—_S ror yi Vol fill a volume. Shakespeare realized i... A RUE | Cronstad gi | that they were inseparable from a faith- The harbor of Cronstadt in Rassia is | yo] portrayal of virile buman charac- to be closed to merchant vessels ‘after | ior; that no truthful picture of com- 1805, and a new harbor will be opened | pon life would be possible withoat the along a maritime canal just below St. | gee of that strong vehement language Pe rsburg. This harbor will be 22 i; which men express their emotions. feet deep, cost 1,000,000 rubles, and | But conventionality forbids to mise be the central point for’ the unloading | teenth century writers what the Eliza- . of coal and the loading of grain and | other articles of export. The depart ment of public works is also consider- t ing the advisability of constructing a tuunel under the Neva like that under | ‘the Thames in London, but built in four stories. This abandonment of Cronstadt is of especial interest, for it was Peter the Great who established . and indeed created it for the port of St. Petersburg.—Springfield Republican. Science of Divine Providence. Nota great while ago a learned ig- noramus delivered a sermon on '*The Science of Divine Providence." “8ir,"’ said a genuine student, at the close, “will you not favor ns @ith a lecture on ‘The Faith of Geometry? ''—Chris- tiag Advocate. bethan age not only tolerated. but ap- proved. —Philadelphia Presa. Whistling on Shipboard. If you want to see a disgusted man, ' just whistle on shipboard before a sail- or. You never knew a sailor to whis- tle. He will tell you all abont ** whis- tling down the wind,’ but he could not | get up a pucker to save his ship. You | remember: that old story about a ses “| captain who refused to take aboard a | woman who whistled, and knowing the | old superstition feared that with her | on board wreck. 1 do not know bow it is with the captains of vessels now, for almost every woman seems to know how to whistle and keeps ap | troit Frea Press. ‘be would be sure of ship- the fashion. —De- : ry | sve — New York Herald Ce ge pS A OA SR Mri — as WATER LOCATION SENSE. The Strange Facuity Powemed by Some Reptiles Even Whee Decapifated. Reptiles and batrachians nsnnily pos- sows what may be termed the water jo My attention was fi~at called 10 this by my brother. who, while engaged in 3 matural pistory expedition in soath- eastern Texas, had what at the time we both nonsidered a nnique experiimos with a large sea tortoise This tortoise had heen enrprived some Eistanes from the water, ameng the sand dunes that line he gulf shore, and oft being overtaken had its hend chop- ped off preparator? to serving #8 a very tortheaomve addition to omar aiet. Moch | to the surprise of the party the bebead- "ad animal continued on its wai toward the water. : Several times it was tarped aroond entirely or part way, bat every tire it was able to nght its position perfuctly and again maka directly for the water. At the time this was narrated t) me { was of the opinien that there must have been something in the comtonr of he land that enabled the tortoies to regain the carrect direction in each Since then [ have had pumerons. proofs that this atility belongs to a pumber of species of these animels in the West Indies, and that the los of eyes and nasal organs of the entire bead and peck. in fact. apparantly works no inconvenience to them in this ‘particular. istic which, =o far as | have Jieen able to find, is not alluded to in any work concerning them. ‘The same singular ability may te ob served in certain species of water fre qoenting snake. The common water spake, often erroneonsly called the “‘geater moccasin,’ almost invariably finds its way to the water, if not to far away, when its bead is cot off. —St Louis Republic. : The Color of Man. The color of the skin in the vurious races of man has never yit bien scien- tifically accounted for, although pamer- ous mythological stories have bees told and senseless thecriea advanced as res- sons for the remarkable variations in boe. Nor have we any certain data concerning the color of the cuticle of | _ the primeval man. the original “lod of creation.’ A pretty African legend is that he was as black as the prover- _ bial ace of spades and that the present pale color of the Caucasian race is the result of the scare God give Adam at . the time of the fall. It is proper to state hers that the same legend says that the prasent black race are descendants of one of Adam's sons that was born and left Eden before | the great change m color overtosk our first parents. The Chiness balieve that the original man was a creature half god and half man, and that kis color came about as a resuit of bathizgina river of liquid gold. The Mussilmans, the American Indians and several ori- _ ental tribes and natioms account for their prevailing red or eonper color by | telling the story of the great being cre- ating the first pair from rad kacim, the common fire clay of (he potter shope. —Exchange. ; Soup For Chapped Hands «Contrary to tie general nction,” said a well known chemist, * goof toilet ‘soap is the best preventive ngainst chapped bands that can be ured. I don’t mean its geveral use in wash- ing, but as a salve or balm, just as you . would apply camphor ice or vaseline. While the commen soap generally osed for cleaning about: the house is of am alkali nature and chape the skin terri- bly, a good toilet scap is nentral and acts as a balm %¢ the irritated skin. In my hosiness 1 have to wash my bands a great number of times a day At first I had great trouble, for my «kin, being paturally sender, chapped easily, mak- | ing large cracks in the flesh which made it dangerous for me to work iz acids. ~ At last 1 discovered by covering my hands with good toilet scap after I bad washed them— rubbing it well into the skin--that 1 not only prevented chap ping. but kept my hands 'n elegant _cordition. Vaseline and salves sre very good, but none of them can do the work ‘of a first class toilet soap. As [said a toilet soap is neutral A person could eat it without iajury. Wy, many of the pills which are prescribed for you are made out of nothing more than teoi- let soap.’ — Pittabarg Dispatch. ——— o— — pS —— Brazil is the botbed of ' provarica- tors for amasement only.” It has in. actual existence an Apanias clab, and rumor credits Judge Silas D. Coffey of | the state supreme bench with tae pres- idency. The judge telia a good story at the expense of John Vanes, proprie- tor of the Van's baxiler works and a cousin te Carnejie, the iron king. He | said that one morning while a party’ ‘were camping at the judge's cottage they awoke to find the thickest fog on | yecord Vanes was missing, and a search was instituted. He was found _just outside tte dour, where he was cutting out slves of the fog with a - ccrnknife and spreading il with sorg- hun molasses for breakfast. Vanes de- nies this and days be was cutting loose | the shadows of night that bad got caught in the fog Brazil (Ird.) Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. [Feree of Habit. Speaking: of farce of habit, some! years ago there was an iron railing arvund the capitol grounds at Washing- ton. The appropriatica bill provided | for a watchman to close and lock the gates every night at & certain hour and open thom at a certain hour every In the course of time the! pillars for a long time, and all time the watcoman came and went ularly. glosing and opening the according to law and drawing 4 AG Sie sk A a rat be A Aa. Se ANI This is a family character © ‘And everyhhi TE ATO AT SEAR THE PATTON MOTEL ST Kindy of Junsd ry werk done ew Fg snd god + pes > € pri Work oiled Bar gues edie Compre lef ab eiesd Bey Hits ps FE Tat RC Stem ohm Tee spare We Wt ES Jay seay BT gre WwW Tr 31" i 4 A JOB OF PAINTING, SIGN-WRITING. PAPERING or FRESCOING. SEE WATSON, THE PAINTER. P. P. Young & Bro, sryd Redatl ~ FRESH MEAT Twaiorin "GF ALL KINDS Bologna, lard, Etc + f iL. IMFTH AVENUE. Patton. Pa. Keller's Bakery and Restaurant. H. E. KELLER. Proprietor. Fifth Avenue, Patton, Pa. Fresh Bread. Pies, Cakes, on hand at all times. served at ail hours and First- class Lancli Counter in connection. WAVE the New Store > dimensions of Room In this room is carried * conceivable in the line of © DRY GOODS. Boots, Shoes. China. Queensware, Glassware, Groceries. &e.. = in the Bakery line al- Tohacoo, Cigars and Confectionery. Fresh Shell Oysters, W==Prices Are Right. AL A 5 ERE WE ARE WITH THE Knocked out of sight, but my Prices are not. I have a very complete line of Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Gold and Steel Spectacles, | Silver Novelties, In fact almost everything that 1s carried In Nr dewelry Stores, and prices © correspond | the times. COME IN AND SEE S. WW. HOY, Patton Block. PATTON. PA. # and on this floor you can see a nice ! Me lasses. with, ME. . Magee Avenne. Sg > * : - SARIS and Feed bonght by car load. A very convenient place for merchandiseing. ™~ : ; Take the elevator to go to second floor which 1s IRR] 1 “vy of CARPETS, and and snch other goods that first floor will not accom-|- : Ee 1 Po MOQ3LL. All goods purchased for CASH and will be sold at prices tha will com- an s : i ah iv: areth 1 pare fav orably w ith all | | | | | | 1 | i competitors. Syrup. Baskets, Willow ware,” &c., are carried in j. x the cellar. The dimensions of w hich are i 30 x 80. 'S. GOOD, PATTON. PENNA.
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