FREELAND TRIBUNE, j PtTBI.IfOIKD HYKHV ' MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, ■ EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: Main Stbuti a hove Cknthi. SUIISCRIPTION BATES. One Year H 50 61x Months 7& ! Four Months 60 Two Months 25 Buhecrit>ere are requested to observe the data following: the name on the labels of their papers. By referring: to this they can toll at a glance how they Btauwi on the books In this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28JuneAft means that Grover is paid up to June 28, ISO*. Keep the (ijrures in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this office wheu your paper not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will Up made in the manner provided byTaw. THE one that takes no chances is reminded that much business cannot be transacted in a cyclone cellar. THE man that feels like swearing and does not is either a very good Christian or very much of a gentle man. A GRAIN importer ot Great Britain, while traveling in Manitoba recently, gave out the valuable Information at Winnipeg that New York exporters mix Manitoba and Argentine wheat and sell it abroad as the best. As this country docs not import wheat from the Argentine Republic, it may be that the mixing is done after the wheat arrives in England. The mix ing is always done by the other fellow. ! THE Salt Lake Chamber of Com merce has made a sweeping reduction in its membership fees aad dues. The fee is reduced from SSO to $5, and the dues are reduced from S3O per annum to $1 per month. The members believe they can accomplish more with a large membership and small dues than with a small mem bership and large dues. The business men of Salt Lake are alive and ener getic. Their cry Is, "Greater Salt Lake." The Commercial Tribune thinks the business men of other cities would do well to follow this ex ample and combine in greater num bers and push forward in unity of ac tion and purpose. The number of employes killed on the railroads every year is not a nice subject, but it is well worth keeping In mind, and mentioning at intervals until something is done to check the slaughter. Here, for example, says the Hartford Courant. is a compari son with the mortality in coal min ing. which is claimed as a hazardous occupation. In 1892 there was in Pennsylvania one fatal accident to every 378 persons employed in the coal mines, and one non-fatal accident to every 153. But among railroad train hands the same year one was killed to every 115 employed, and one hurt to every twenty-eight employed. There is no sufficient reason for such a record. A many times millionaire, who had no education and to whom the great world of culture and refinement is like a sealed book, tries to dissuade a boy from getting a higher education. The argument he uses is that thero are too many educated people work ing for S4O to SSO per month. With people who look merely upon the su perficial and money side of every thing this is a strong argument, but the fact remains that even though an education does not seem to reach or help a natural fool, the smartest §elf-made man In the world recog nizes the fact that well as he can work under a handicap he could work all the bettor for having the best tools to work with. W iTii the advent of electric street railways and the general use of bicycles, the demand for horses has decreased rapidly. Even on the farm, machinery is displacing horse power. Every year witnesses an in creased use of stcarn and electrical power and decreased use of horses and mules. The time is nearly at hand when there will be no demand worth mentioning for any horses ex cept blooded animals for driving, riding and draught purposes. The all around horse of a generation agp has lost his job. The world moves and the horse breeder who fails to keep up with the procession would better seek some other means of earning a living. THK training of business tends tc make the individual punctual, sys tematic, correct, often building up the character of young employes by imperative demands for reliability. To the women, who from social and industrial conditions have found it expedient to enter largely Into vari ous pursuits, it has been a liberal ed ucation along practical lines. It has taught them, as it taught their brothers —much-needed quality of comradeship, which has the flavor ot both charity and friendship. Much of the old-fashioned hysteria has dis appeared under congenial study arid employment which has tempered the physical make-up with an endurance that comes only from mental poises MERRYMAKING IN JAPAN. CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE OF THE FLOWERY KINGDOM. tirc.it Public Festivals That Had Their Origin in Religious and National Ceremonials. y~T THE Japanese are essentially a I f merrymaking people, court- I eons, kindly and intelligent, "2*" and their frequent festivals are observed in a happy, childlike and gorgeous manner. A Japanese crowd of holiday makers visit the fairs with a full determination to see and be seen, and if, as judged by our own standards, a few repulsive features of life do occasionally present them selves when least looked for and under almost startling circumstances, it is none the less a fact that the great mass of the people enjoy their mirth ful seasons innocently and with hearty good will. Public festivals in Japan, as a rule, have their origin in some religious or national ceremonial, says a corre spondent of the Chicago Record, hut they are now carried on quite apart from any religious observance, although the fairs are held and the booths and stalls are erected in the broad avenue approaches about the temples, and the priests, as a matter of course, come in for a fair 6hare of the holiday money spent by old and young alike. The temples at these times are open almost the entire day and night, a few priests kneeling on either side the shrine chant their un ending appeal to Buddha, and the front of the portal is open for the ap proach and homage of the faithful. No long act of devotion is expected from holiday makers. The devotee gives a quick jerk of the rope, which rings the gong fixed above the shrine, to call the attention of the protecting god or goddess, bends his head and clasps his hunda in it most devotional mauuer and approaches close to the image. A few muttered words, a money offering, a parting ring of the gong and the officiating priest hands to the worshiper a charm paper on which appears a representation of the deity of the temple ;nud, unconcerned and self-satisfied, the devotee passes out quickly to join the merry throng without turning to tea house or theatre. Away from the beaten tracks of travel a Japanese tea house is a charm ing place for rest and refreshment. Simple rural fare, bright smiles and j polite attention euhanco the pleasant j experiences, and especially is it so at a distance from the settlements, where | the tea houses are built in peaceful 1 valleys, or perched on the very banks j of a roaring torrent among the many i colored hills. But the case is very | different in towns and villages during 1 a festival season. A crowd of eager ' customers fills every room of the house, and no corner can be found wherein to rest. A constant stream of visitors Hock in all day long seeking refresh ments. Boisterous laughter and noisy merriment prevail, and the discord is heightened by the sharp twang of the banjo and the harsh notes of the sing ing girl. To the stranger, unfamiliar with language and eurrouudings the tune is bewildering in the extreme. Certainly there is no lack of patron age, and the waiting girls, dressed guyly in summer attire, are hurried about everywhere and have troops of admiring swains to fling after them pretty compliments. But a smile and a soft word, or perhaps a witty re partee must suffice, as the busy dam sels manage somehow to be in two places at the same time. The clamor is kept up on all sides for fish and rice, chopsticks, wine and everything else pleasing to the palate, and the swiftly moving attendants must show no preference, but attend with even temper and impartial kindness to the wants of every guest. One party rises and the vacant space is filled at once, and so amid the compliments, chatter ing, laughing and singing the feasting goes on from the early hours of morn ing to the latest iu the evening. Outside of the tea house, as the day advances, the scene is very striking, and as one can readily ascend a neigh boring hillside the motley crowds of gayly-dressed holiday makers and the many attractions of the fair can be viewed to advantage. The avenues to the temples Hro flanked with giant trees which throw welcome and re- freshing shade over the crowds below, and beneath the sheltering branches the tumblers, jugglers, the ballad mongers and sweet-meat sellers, and all the varied types of itinerant mer chants are surrounded by wondering rustics and admiring urchins. In convenient places many larger booths have been erected, and from the crowds Hocking toward the larger booth there can be no doubt but that something unusual must be about to take place. Near the opening on a separate platform stand several men of quite large stature for Japanese, and there is no mistaking their splendid physique. "Wrestlers," we are told in answer to inquiries, and it is said that several famous combatauts will shortly test their powers. The Jap anese are famous wrestlers, and the performance of two champions is ac counted a great treat and thoroughly enjoyed. f The preparation of the pretty young Japanese damsels are also worth a few words of description. Their raven-black locks must be washed, combed and greased till their heads shine like polished marble; the cheeks must be rouged to the proper tint; the throat and neek powdered— carefully leaving, however, on the nape of the neck three lines of the owner's brown skin, in accordance with the rules of Japanese cosmetic art; the eyebrows must be carefully rounded and touched with black, and finally the lips reddened with cherry paste with a patch of gilding in tHe center. When all this has been done and the various layers of clothing adjusted, the obi, or huge sash of many colors, tied in the knot of prevailing fashion, the cleanest of white stockings and the newest lacquered pattens on the feet, the belle is ready, and, with the proper allowance of pocket handker chief paper, her tobacco pouch, pipe and fan, she sails forth, turning her toes well in and playing demurely with her fan. Her mother is likewise painted, combed and adorned. Hundreds of women similarly at tired and bent on the pathways of pleasure are to be met at the fair, aud no such merry meetings of friends and neighbors, bowing and laughing and paying of compliments could occur elsewhere at such a time and place as in a crowd of Japanese. Roguish eyes laugh from behind fans wafted with graceful motion, and, depend upon it, the damsel's many attractions will captivate some merry bachelor or bring to the point the declartion of a perhaps too long hesitating lover. WISE WORDS. Sorrow is healed by bathing it in tears. Marrying for spite is doubling the trouble. We love flowers most when wc don't need bread. When Time makes exchanges Time takes the boot. A vsoman never loves a man for what he does for her. Music is the chaste or voluptuous dance of sounds. Hypocrites are the counterfeit coin age of mankind. Imitation is the first attempt of the child at education. One can counterfeit almost every thing else but courage. Unravel an illusion and the threads will never bear rospinning. Friendship is to lovo as the steady light is to the lightning's flush. Even the homeliest human being finds some comfort looking in a mir ror. A man may Imperil his immortal soul by not keeping his scales bal anced. Man's capacity for meanness when | he sets his head in that direction is ! immense. An ounce of solid home work is worth more than a pound of conven tion enthusiasm. Dreams are broken bits of reality placed in the shifting kaleidoscope of the sleeping mind. A gossip can do more with the tongue in one week than the victim can do with his entire body iu a year. If a star came down to earth, it wouldn't be there a day until some body would say it was oulv a tallow caudle. To decry the healer and his art ami then to ride post liasto for the phy sician upon approaching qualms is typical of humanity. When an idea once gets into the labyrinth of the brain there is no knowing what turn it may take or what developments may ensue. • A Big Tunnel. The new double line railway tunnel made through the Standedge hills from Marsden to Diggle by the Lon don and Northwestern Railway Com pany has been officially inspected aud a certificate has been granted for its opening, says the Blackburn (Eng land) Times. The first ordinary train to run through the tiuinel was the 7.3'J passenger train from Diggle. It was four years ago that the first sod of the new tunnel was cut. The tunnel is three miles and sixty yards long. The maximum number of men employed on the works has been 1800. The work of boring the tunnel was of a stupen dous character, the geological forma tion being millstone grit and Yore dale shale, with coal in a few seams too thin almost throughout to be worth separating. The character of the work may be judged from the fact that 120 tons of gelignite were used in blasting operations. The walling of the tunnel is throughout of bricks, no fewer than 25,000,000 bricks being used. Poisoned Bullets iu Warlare. International compact, which for bids the use of poisonous aud explo sive bullets, provides against purposely infected shot. Nevertheless experi ments have been made by Messner with bullets purposely infected with micro organisms, and the results are sum marized by Knowledge for the present month. The bullets were discharged at tin boxes filled with sterilized pep stone, and the channels made by the shots were examined. It was found that, in spite of the heat of the dis charge and the violence and briefness of the impact, cultivations of bacteria arose in the gelatine. In other cases the boxes had been wrapped in flannel infected with various bacteria, and un infected bullets were fired through fiannel and gelatine. Growths of bac teria derived from the infected fiannel appeared in the gelatine. Knowledge remarks upon the horrible suggestion conveyed by these experiments.—Chi cago Record. Hosiery of Wood Pulp. Wood pulp has been put to many uses, hut the most extraordinary is in adulterating woolen yarn. A way of spinning the pulp has been discovered and the production can be combined with wool in making yarn, in the pro ; portion of one part of wood to two | parts of wool. Much of this com i posite yarn is said to have been made ! into hosiery.—New York Telegram. SOME GIGANTIC TURTLES THE TOOTHSOME TORTOISE OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. I lie Species Rapidly Itccoinin; Kx tinct—Found High l ! i i the Mountains—Other Noted Turtles. ME. BAUR, who probably knows more about turtles than any other man living, has just returned from the Galapagos Islands. He brings news of the almost entire extinction of the gi gantic tortoises for which that little archipelago long ago becamo cele brated. There are none of them left on any of the isles except Albemarle and Duncan. About a dozen remain on Duncan, and a very few survive on Albemarle, high up in the mountains. The isles are crowned by lofty mountains, and even their vegetation is remarkable, consisting of huge cacti and acacias. The most extraordinary of the animals peculiar to the archipelago were the huge black laud tortoises. From them is derived the name Gala pagos, given by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Some of these tur tles attained a weight of nearly 10(H) pounds. Unfortunately for them, it was soon discovered that they were particularly good to eat, and whaling and other vessels ucquired a habit of stopping at the islands for supplies of fresh meat in this shape. The crea tures served admirably for the pur pose, inasmuch as they would live ou shipboard for many months and could bo killed when wauted for the table. In this way 0000 turtles were taken from Charles Island alone in one year. It has been reckoned that no fewer than ten millions cf the animals have been carried away by ships from the archipelago since its discovery. On the whole it is rather surprising that any of them are left. Dr. Baur ex plored Duncan Islands thoroughly aud found twenty tortoises. Of these he took eight, sparing the rest. Four of them he sent to Chicago, where they are now alive at Lincoln Park; the others died. Duncan Island rises to a height of 1200 feet above the sea. Al bemarle Island reaches -1500 feet above the sea level. At an elevation of 2500 feet Dr. Baur got his biggest turtle, which was four feet long, three and a half feet high and weighed 500 pounds. It was strong enough to walk about with three men ridiug on its back. The archipelago consists of fifteen small islands. The line of the equator runs directly through it. It lies due west from the coast of Ecuador, 050 miles. The supposition is that in an ancient epoch all of the islands formed part of a continuous land mass; but a subsidence of the latter beneath the sea left above water only the highest peaks of the mountains by which it was crowned. Those peaks ure the islands of to-day. Originally, it is imagined, the tortoises were all of one species, but the isolation of colonies thus left to survive in localities be tween which there could be no com munication resulted in the develop ment of different characters. One reason why the animals are so interesting is that they are very an cient, being survivors of the tertiary period. They are vegetable feeders, browsing ou the young shoots of cacti and gnoses. In former times they visited the sea periodically, but the few survivors have abandoned the cus tom. Beiug very foud of fresh water, they have had the habit of making long pilgrimages to reach springs high up on the mountains. To get to them they would travel day aud night at the rate of three or four miles an hour. Thus in the course of centuries regu lar roads were made by them to and from the watering places, aud it was by following these well-traveled paths | from the coast that the Spuniards lirst j came across the springs. ! Formerly there were tortoises as ; big as those of the Galapagos Islands or the Aldubru Islands, near Madu | gascar, but they were wiped out by greedy man. There used to bo a species of turtle in Mauritius. Vau I Neck, the discoverer of the Dodo, tound some of these, which were so large that six men could be seated in a siugle shell. Another authority states that 2000 or 5000 of them were sometimes seen in one drove. The largest land turtles known to have ex isted at any time are dug up iu fossil shape iu the Sivalik hills of Asia. They attained a length of seven feet and a weight of about 1000 pounds. Plenty of fossil turtles four feet loug are discovered in Montana and Dakota. However, there is more than one species ol marine tortoise to-day that surpasses in Bizo the Sivalik turtles. The loggerhead reaches a weight of 1600 pounds and a length of nine feet, while the comparatively rare "leather back" grows to even greater dimen sions. The loggerhead is a very last and strong swimmer. He is often seen many miles from land floating on the waves. Unlike the other great sea turtles, which prefer a vegetable diet, the loggerhead is carnivorous. He has very powerful jaws and with them easily cracks the shells of large eonchs, eating the meat. Sometimes the oil from the fat of this reptile is smeared on the sides of vessels to keep shipworms from eating tho wood. Hunting for tho great sea tortoises affords a good living to many thou sands of fishermen. Most important of them, of course, is the tortoise-shell turtle. Though it iRa vegetable feeder, it is much more fierce than the carnivorous loggerhead. It bites very severely, sometimes inflicting painful wounds. The finest tortoise shell comes from tho Indian Archipelago, and is shipped from Singapore, but much of it is ob tained on tho Florida coast. There are three rows of plates on the back. In the central row are five plates, and in each of the other four plates, the latter containing the best material. Besides these thero are twenty-fiv J small plates around the edge of tho shell. Formerly the under shell was thrown away, being considered worth less, but at present it is very highly valued for its delicacy of coloring. Nowadays a beautiful imitation of tortoise shell is made out of cows' horns. The big snapping turtle of Louisi ana, Mississippi and Arkansas attains a length of three feet and is* enor mously strong. It will bite a stick an inch thick to pieces. On its tongue are two processes, which look like angle worms, and it is supposed that these are used to attract Hah withiu reaching distance. Tho head of tho snapping turtle will bite for hours after it has been cut off, and the heart will continue to beat for twenty-four hours after being removed from tho body. Dr. Baur says that the most ex traordinary tortoise in the world from one point of view exists in New Guinea. The strange thing about it is that only one specimen has ever been found, now preserved in tho Australian Museum, and no species nearly resembling it is known to be alive, though it bears some likeness to an extinct form.—Washington Star. SELECT SIFTINUS. Sheet music is sold by the pound iu Germany. Many of tho great men of history were epileptics. Umbrellas inado of oiled paper are used in Korea. American coal was lirst discovered by French missionaries. One pound of sheep's wool is capa ble of producing a yard of cloth. Blood orauge is only a variety of the common orange, produced by cul tivation. A case at Chillicothe, Mo., which had previously hung live juries, was recently concluded with a verdict of $2.10 for tho plaintiff. Wabasha, Minn., has the champion "flour-totcr." He walked up three flights of stairs, the other day, with a barrel on eaeb shoulder. One of the customs of ancient Baby lon was an annual auction of unmarried women. The proceeds of the sale of the beautiful women were used as a dower for the ungainly ones. There is a superstition iu China that if you send for a charm the moment you feel sick, you will get well. In this country there is a similar super stitition about sending for a doctor. On the coast ol' England and Franco is to bo seeu the wild plant Iroin which have been developed the white and red cabbages, cauliflower and other varieties, and perhaps even the com mon turnip. A joko uttered in tho presenco of Isaac Hood, a colored man, aged sixty eight, who resides i|i Philadelphia, tickled him to such a degree that ho burst into a lit of laughter which dis located his jaw. A Mexican sheep-herder recently rode eigaty miles between Little Hole and Rook Springs, Wyoming, iu six hours aud a half, changiug horses three times, to get a doctor for the wile of his employer. An Albany (Ga.) woman, who tried to rid her premises of rats by soaking hominy iu arsenic water, says that the entire tribe of rodents now inhabiting her place aru of snowy wKioness, but still alive and frisky. Pears ripened so rapidily during the drought in California that they de cayed within ten days after being plucked. As a consequence the price fell and it was possible to buy sixtceu luscious Bartlett pears for live cents. In some parts of Ire aud eggs are sold by size. A large board with holes in it is the measure ; those which are too large to go through the largest hole command the first price ; those that go through the first, but not the second, get second price, and so ou. Mr. Goldson, of Sulphur Wells, Ga., died recently at tho age of 310, and was shortly followed by his wife, aged 101. He leaves seven children, aged respectively eighty-four, eighty-two, eighty, seventy-eight, seventy-six, seventy-four and seventy-two. No child of the family has died but ono grand son, who was killed in the wur. llow a king Mas rfaile. Rudolph von Hapsburg, ridiug to his Swiss home from hunting, came upon a priest carrying the sacrament to a bick man. The priest on foot was stopped by a river. Rudolph imme diately dismounted, set tho priest and sacrament on horseback and led the 1 steed bv the rein to the sick man's house. Ho declined to take the horse agftiu to daily use, but gave it to the priest for the service of tho church. Remembering this deed, Werner, Archbishop of Mainz, iu 1273, pro cured the election of Rudolph us King of the Romaus and Kaiser. Hence we have the source aud fount of tho proud imperial house of Hapsburg. Schiller enshriues tho legend in ono of the best of his ballads, "Der Graf von Hapsburg." It may be mentioned that the late heir to tho imperial throne of Austria wsj named after his illustrious ancestor, Rudolph.—Pitts burg Dispatch. M ill M'heut Turn to Cheat. Some who read this headline will say "yes" and swear to it, while others equally as well acquainted with the mysterious in agricultural lore, will declare that like produces like, and that one species of grain never sprang from another. Thero is but one in stance on record in all tho annals of agriculture where a spike of cheat has been found in a head of wheat. This curiosity is, or was quite recently at least, preserved in the agricultural museum at Springfield, 111.—St. Louis Republic. * THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OP THE PRESS. Tliey All Knew It—A Worthy Object —The Evils of Poverty— A Sum mary, Etc.. Etc. When some poor fellow, long ago Unfriended and alone. Now mnke9 a big success, he's mot By all tho friends he's known. And, ore they reach oat for his hand— Before they can get to it- Each one cries out. wi.h laughtpr loud : "Old man, I said you'd dott!'' —Tom Masson, in Tuck. A PATHETIC CASE. Van Quille —"Do you know I have a perfect passion for poetry!" Miss Beacon—"Unrequited, isn't it?"— Kate Field's Washington. A SUMMARY. "I wonder what kind of people live in Mars?" said tho philosophical girl. "They're out of sight," replied the plaugful and confident young man.— Washington Star. THE EVILS OF POVERTY. Prison Visitor—"My poor man, how did you get in here?" Convict—"Hard lnek. 1 didn't manage to steal enough to fee a first class lawyer!"— Truth. NOT VERY PROGRESSIVE. Dr. Emdee—"Years ago tho doc tors used to bleed their patients for about everything they had." Van Pelt —"The practice doesn't change much, does it?"— Truth. SHORT AND TO THE POINT. "The doctors say that kissing is un healthy," said the young man to his girl; "what do you think of it?" "I never had much faith in doc tors, " she replied.—New York Press. A SURE CORRECTIVE. Wife—"That new girl sleeps like a log. and I never can get her up iu the morning." Husband (struck by a bright idea) "Let the baby sleep with her."— Good News. PROFESSIONAL COURTESY. Sinners (paintinga purple landscape for the girl he once loved) —"Oh, why did she invite mo to her wedding?" Jumpers—"That's what she will say, old boy, when she receives your pic ture."—Life. A WORTHY OBJECT. Beggar Tramp—"Please help tho blind." Passerby—"How did you become blind?" B. T. "Lookin' fcr work, sir."— Detroit Free Press. SARCASM. "I understand," said Miss Fledg ling, "that the Baron do Faiquo has lost his reputation." "Indeed!" replied Miss Ohlburd. "Well, for his sake I sincerely hope so."—Washington Star. A YOUNG YACHTSMAN. Ernio's Mother (to Ernie, who has been a little impudent to his father) "But dou't you know that your father is the mainstay of tho family?" Ernie—"Yes, you bet he is. And 1 the spanker, too."—Truth. MISUNDERSTOOD. | Ada—"lsn't it good to be out of tho j horrid city and in the fresh, lovely j country? Aren't you glad you're here? j Jack—"Ob, thank you! I—" I Ada—"l mean I'm glad I'm here." \ —Life. A COSTLY DIAGNOSIS. Wife—"Tho doctor tells mo that he thinks you have enlargement of the heart." Husband —"I thought he must imagine I had something of tho sort by the size of the bill ho sent in."— Truth. OPINIONS DIFFER. Hattie—"Dou't you think Charlie Jinklets is a rara avis?" Clara—"Not at all." Hattie (surprised)—" Why not!" Clara (with scorn)—" Because I never did think a goose was a rare bird, that's why. "—Detroit Free Press. OF BENEFIT AT ANY TIME. Dispensary Physician (writing out prescription) "Now, you aro to take this medicine three times a day after meals." Poor Patient—"But it is a very rare thing when I get a meal, doctor." The Doctor—"Well, in that case you had better take it before meals." Truth. HUMILITY OF GREATNESS. "What did tho doctor say was tho matter with you?" "He said he didn't know." "Well, what doctor are you going to next?" "None. When a doctor dares to make such an admission as that he must he about as high iu his profes sion as ho can get."—lndianapolis Journal. THE COUNT WAS DREAMING. Midnight. Tho Countess Gjesundheimer, nee Porkingham, was listening intently. The Count was talking in his sleep. True, when she h(ad exchanged her millions for his titjle she had waived all thoughts of hisj past, but with a woman's natural cuTiosity she wished to know for the sak<p of knowing. Breathlessly she hearkened. From the finely chiselled lips of her artisto crntic spouse came tlio words: "Gollar putions, two for five. Nice ivorine gollar piittons, two for five." —lndianapolis Journal. SOLVED THE PROBLEM., Miss Strongmind—"Pardon mc, but if I am not mistaken you are one of the poor, underpaid working girls whom our Emancipation Society tried I to benefit—or at least you were two years ago?" | Fair Stranger—"That is true." "Then our society has evidently j not been without influence, for you | look very prosperous now." I "I have everything I want, and never was so happy in my life." "Thank Heaven! You must have solved the Woman Problem." "I have." "Glorious! Tell me how you man aged." "I married a nice yoiiDg man."— New York Weekly. roo THIN FOR HIM. Willie—"You just otter a-bin 'ith my paw nn' mc to-day—" Jimmie—"Wheie'd yo go?" "Went out to the 'syluni and saw all them ijuts 'n crazy people, 'n they danced, 'u—" "Did they rasscl?" "No—" "Nor stand on the'r heads?" "N-no—" "Ner kick 0110 nuthcr in tho' mouths?" "Course not." "Ner scratch their faces?" "Course n—" "Ner tear the'r olo'cs off, ner break tlie'r arms, ner blaggard, ner swear, ner—" "No, Jimmie; whatyer mean?" "You think ye saw fun out tkero 'ith them ijuts, Willie?" "Course I do—" "Geo whiz! Yer left! T wnz to ther football game."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Facts About Babies, It isn't always the biggest baby that is the strongest or finest, for firmness of flesh and bone, with a steady, if slow increase in weight and bulk, is better than auv great stature or weight. Of course children are built on different models, and one cannot say that a baby should weigh just so much at such and such a time, but some one has gone to the trouble of getting some averages with which mothers may console themselves when they have nothing else to think of. At birth a boy should weigh some six and a half to seven pounds; a girl somewhat less, or about six to six and a half pounds. Twins nro always of lower average weight, and size than single children, although tho two to gether weigh more than any single baby. In height a boy should meas ure at birth ou an average eighteen to nineteen inches; a girl some half an inch less—the range of health lying between sixteen arid tweutv-two inches. The child grows with rapidity during the first year, faster than dur ing any other period of tho same length, so that it gains about eight inches, measuring when twelve months old about twenty-seven inches, its weight being about nineteen pounds. During the second year it gains only four inches on an average, and five pounds in weight, reaching a stature t of thirty-one inches and a weight of twenty-four pounds. ' But these fig ures represcut only the average, tho extreme ranging i> tw n wide limits. A fact that is seldom taken into con sideration with children, with regard to their weight and plumpness, is that about their second year, when they are learning to walk, they become thinner, not because they deteriorate iu health, but through tho increased exercise using up more of the tissues forming the muscles of the body.— Milwaukee Journal. Whore Itain is Unknown. There is, perhaps, no more curious place on tho Pacific seaboard than Iquique. Tt stands in a region where ruin has never beqn known to fall, aud where, as was. remarked by Dar win when ho visited Iquiqiio in 1835, the inhabitants livo like people on hoard ship. These number about 14,- 000, nearly all connected with tho staple industry of the port, due to the development of the nitrate industry 011 the adjacent pampas. The raiu gauges at Lima, close to t lie Pacific, record absolutely no rainfall. There are soverul parts of the earth where ruin never falls. Such are the Sahara, or great desert of Africa, and con siderable tracts of Arabia, Syria, Per sia, Thibet and Mongolia in tho Old World, while iu South America the rainless districts comprise narrow strips 011 the shores of Peru, Bolivia And Chile, and 011 the coast of Mexico and Guatemala, with a small distribt between Trinidad and Panama on the coast of Venezuela.—Brooklyn Eagle. Japanese as Gardners. "The Japanese are experts at gar dening, aud give tsucli individual at tention to each blossom that they ob tain wonderful results," said Professor L. E. Hollowav, of Wheeling, who was at the Southern yesterday. "No matter how humble the iittlo homo, it is brightened by a vase, with at least one flower or a spray of autumn leaves in it. Their arrangement of flowers is always lovely, being models of har mony in form and color. There is no stiffness, for they try to imitate nature. I examined one rose bush in tho pro cess of development, and found that almost every twig was tied with a fine thread and bent in the way it should grow. The entire population turn out to honor flowers, and they fre quently write poems and tie, them to the branches. The Japanese term for picnic signifies 'to go out and see flowers.'"—St. Louis Republic.
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