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FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 20, 181)5.
Teacher Won't Pay tlie Bill.
Miss Tucker, a school teacher at Ex
celsior, Coal tow. ship, Schuylkill coun
ty, lias been arrested on a warrant
sworn out by Stanislaus General, of that
place, whose two children were sent
home from school. As scarlet fever is
prevalent in that vicinity tin; board of
health issued orders to all teachers to
keep a sharp lookout and send all chil
dren home in whose families they had
reason to believe there was any sickness.
Miss Taylor heard that scarlet fever ex
isted in General's house, and she sent
his two children homo. Their father
immediately sent for a physician and
had him search the premises and ex
amine all members of his family. He
secured the physician's certificate stat
ing that his home was free from the con
tagion and then sent the bill for medical
services to the teacher for payment.
Miss Tucker refused to pay the hill and
General had her arrested. The hearing
lias not yet been held, but the school
teachers are awaiting its result with un
usual interest.
Handy Man on the Committee.
From the Wilkosbarre Louder.
Tho substitution of Alvan Markle for
the late Daniel Coxc as a member of the
Republican state committee was avers
adroit piece of work. Tho accrued de
posits of the Hazleton banker outweigh- j
ed the political knowledge of Colonel j
Scott who wanted to get. on the committee I
but who was set aside because it was
thought that Markle's leg could be
made longer than Scott's. Well, some
body's leg will have to be pulled, for.
according to all accounts, the money
that is in the hands of the committee
isn't weighing anybody down, the sev
eral candidates appearing to think that
it. is safer to keep the bulk of their
own coin in their own pockets, to be
used for their own personal interests.
Mr. Markle Is a handy man to have on
the committee.
Weiss Beer Not Intoxicating.
The Northampton county grand jury
has decided that weiss beer is not in
toxicating. The jury asked Judge Scott
in court whether it was a violation of
the law to sell it without a license
and on Sunday. After being told it was
a matter of fact, not a question of law.
the jury returned and asked witnesses
whether weiss beer drinking would in
toxicate. They inquired patiently of
weiss beer drinkers and finally decided
that it was a "soft drink," and would
not intoxicate. One witness told the
jury that he usually drank weiss beer to
"sober up" on, and invariably found ii
had the desired effect.
Beware of the Strolling Dentist.
A few days ago a large stylish woman
calling herself Dr. Alberta Oberlin, of
St. Louis, arrived at Stroudsburg and
advertised to pull teeth without pain.
She found live victims, to whose gums
she applied a liquid. Soon after tin
operation the patient became ill. The
Stroudsburg Times say s their faces and
hands became discolored, their tongue*
swollen and their stomachs a (Tec Led.
Ono of them may die. The dentist has
fled.
llow to Got a Rebate on Koa<l Tax.
The legislature last winter passed an
act that ail persons who shall hereafter
use wagons with tires not less than
four inches wide for hauling loads of
not less than 3,000 pounds, shall he cred
ited by the supervisors of their town
ship with one-fourth of the road tax
levied and assesed against them, provid
ing that the amount so allowed shall not
exceed live days' labor.
Hcliuy I kill Lou nt yg Democrat*.
Schuylkill county Democrats have
nominated tho following ticket: Or
phans'court judge, I*. M. Dunn, Miners
ville, district attorney, E. W. Bechtel,
Pottsville; controller, M. 11. Masters.
Shenandoah; coroner, Dr. D. S. Mar
shall, Ashland; surveyor, William J.
Downey, Pottsville; poor director, W. F.
Keegan, Mahanoy City.
There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and prescrib
ed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to care with local treatment, pro
nounced it incurable. Science baa
proven catarrh to bo a constitutional
disease and therefore requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional
cure ou the market. It is taken in
ternally in doses from ten drops to a
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the
blood and mncoos surfaces or the sys
tem. They oiler ono hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address.
K. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O.
ty Sold by druggifito, 700.
TWO LOST LETTERS.
llow Postal Officials at Times Arc Com- !
polled to I'so Their Wits.
An English merchant was advised by '
his agent that u check of six hundred
pounds sterling would be sent to him !
by the next mail, says Mr. Raines in j
his "Forty Years at the Post Office." It
did not come and the merchant at once !
made complaint at tho post office. Tho
postman on that route was called in by
the postmaster, and, in answer to ques- :
tions, said that the missing packet was
duly received and delivered. He re
membered it distinctly—its shape, eol- j
or and postmark. As liis habit was he
had poked it under tho house door,
with two other letters and a newspa
per. The merchant's wife had picked j
up three packets and was positive there
had not been a fourth.
Tho postmaster went to the house j
and examined it carefully. Then ho !
looked into the back garden. Ilis eye
lighted on a litter of puppies. A
thought struck him.
"Have tho dog kennel cleared out j
please."
"Nonsense! Why?"
"Kindly have it cleared."
"Well, if it must bo. Thomas, take
out the straw."
On the floor of the kennel, torn into
a hundred bits, lay the missing letter
and chock. A current of air along the
passage had blown the letter about, j
The puppies, naturally enough, had |
pounced upon it as und had
had a good time.
A merchant complained of the loss of \
a letter mailed from liis office contain- I
ing some hundreds of pounds in Bank
of England notes. Finally an expert I
from the post office department called j
upon him.
"Believe mo, sir," the expert said, "I
have an object in what I ask. Will
you kindly sit at your desk and recall
each operation connected with the miss
ing letter?"
"With pleasure. I sit here, I take a
sheet of this note paper and one of
those covers. Then I write my letter
and fold it up so. Next I go to my
safe and take out the notes, enter their
numbers, fold them, put them in the
letter and the letter in the cover. Then
I seal them all up as you see me do."
"Just so, and what next?"
"Why, my clerk comes in and clears
off my desk for the post."
"But you wrote this one at noon, and
the post does not go out before night."
"Oh, 3 T es, of course! I quite forgot to
say that a monejMetter, for greater se
curity, I put in a left-hand drawer."
"Which one?"
"Which? Why, this one. I open it
so and I—bless my soul! Goodness me!
I am very, very sorry for all the trouble
I've given, llere is the letterl"
A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD.
Plunks Mudo of Cork Will Bo Used In
Now Ships.
Several months ago tlie board of in
spection and survey of the navy depart
ment was directed to make an investi
gation with a view of obtaining some
practicable substitute for wood in fit
ting naval vessels. Tho desire for a
substitute was tho fact that a lighter
material was wanted if possible, one
that would not take so much space in
the vessel, and more than anything
else a material that would not splinter.
It was also desirable to have a non
combustible substance.
The board, says tho Washington
Post, has made a report to the secre
tary of the navy and some of its recom
mendations have been adopted by hiin,
and it is probable that some of the new
ships will bo fitted with the new ma
terial as a substitute for wood.
One of the best materials which lias
been found by tho board is a wood sub
stitute composed of waste cork, or any
cork. This is subjected to four hun
dred degrees of heat, and it is then
pressed into blocks of any required
size. It can be sawed into thin strips
or handled very much as wood is
handled. Cork has a gum that great
heat melts and glues its particles to
gether in a compact mass. After being
pressed it sticks together as tightly as
if it had grown that way. The cork
boards may be made heavy or light, as
wanted. Some of the lighter kinds are
used in the walls of refrigerators. It
is a non-conductor, and can scarcely be
made to burn. This material is used iu
the place of wood in German vessels.
Commander Bradford, who made the
search and examination of this particu
lar substitute, found that the Germans
were using it under a patent taken out
by John Smith, of New York, and that
companies in the United States had ob
tained rights for its manufacture here.
DEGENERATION IN BOSTON.
Tlm-IIonor-il Spot* Being Ruthlessly
Wiped from View.
Notwithstanding the sentiment in
the commonwealth against the demoli
tion of the state house it will have to
go, writes G. W. Wilfred Pcarcc, of
Boston, to the New York Sun. The
drawings of a new building have been
completed, and the work of construction
will begin next March.
Tho process of disfiguring the public
garden and the common goes merrily
on. Tlie old burying ground on the
common, wherein rested tho bones of
many soldiers of the revolution and
Jullien, the inventor of Jullicn soup,
lias been vandalized by the promoters
of that queer conception, the subway,
in which electric ears running south
and west are to go.
Within a short time the common will
be grabbed by politicians and real es
tate speculators. Flaws have been dis
covered in the title, and, as for ten
i years it has been suffered to decay,
I Bostonians take littles pride in it; the
new parks have given the venerable
common a death blow.
Seven peanut and balloon peddlers
and two astronomers who used to cater
to the wants of Bostonians have shut
up shop, owing* to the decay of trade on
that famous ground. Even well-bred
Boston dogs consider it bad form to
bathe in the frog pond where the foun
tain squirts only on Sunday. The good
old man who for many years has served
the city on Flagstaff iiill told me, with
tear,i in his eyes, that the "Olild com
mon is going- to the divU entirely."
LITTLE DAMES AND MEN.
Wo all must remember when
We were littlo dames and men;
When each sorrow tugged away with all Its
might
At our little hearts and eyes,
Till tho air was full of sighs,
And tho brightest day was turned to darkest
night.
llow we'd weep,
How wo'd creep
To our little beds to sleop,
With wet lashes on flushed faces; oven then,
Not a soul would ever know
Half our agony; and so
Wo should sympathize with little dames antf
We must all remember when
Wo were little dames and mon,
When we meet the little ones from day to day;
A kind word is just as chcrp.
And It sinks to depths as deep
A3 tho harsh ono you wero sending down their
way.
If you knew
llow a few
Gracious aots and words from you
Were planted in their souls; to blossom when
Golden days of ohlldhood seem
To bo shadows of u dream,
You would love and cherish little dames and
men.
—N. E. Magazine.
M'GHEOGHAN'S LAPSE
BY WILLIS CIIAMIJEItLAIN.
Vp, '° ll E O G IIA N
i . \ kept sober
M&l r\X\ \ a long time. For
fnflK f weeks he ha d
f \ not even taken
a jriass of whis
ky with Jimmy Sullivan, and he used
to drop into Jimmy's every evening,
"just to wash the dust front his t'roat,'
as he phrased it. The washing process
hid developed into such proportions
that McGlieoghan's wife said he might
as well "dlirown himself and be done
wid It." Then she applied what she
called the "wather cure," and Mc-
Gheoghan reformed. Mrs. McGheo
ghan liad such faith in the reforma
tion that she had taken the baby and
gone for three days to her cousins, the
O'Flannigans, in Saucelito; and the
only admonition she had given her
husband was tho parting injunction:
"Mind yer eye, now, Maurice."
McGheoghan had not been particu
larly proud of his descent from the Mc-
Gheoghans, of Galway, but his young
wife continually dinned it iuto him that
they were "a fine ould family," and
that he ought not to disgrace them by
associating with people beneath him.
It was bad enough to be poor, she said,
without mixing with the common herd.
As a distinguishing mark, she always
gave an Italian pronunciation to her
.husband's name, Maurice, and insisted
upon his doing tho same. Mrs. Mc-
Gheoghan had learned Italian in her
youth among the fishermen of North
Beach. Maurice did not take his
wife's discipline kindly, and it was
only his love for her that made him
endure it. Out of her sight he liked to
be one of the boys, and In sly ridicule
of her aristocratic pretensions spoke of
himself as a "liurain illevator" —he
elevated bricks by the hodful up n
ladder.
When McGheoghan pushed quietly
through the screen doors, slipped un
obtrusively past the crowd at the bar,
sat down at the last table, and began
looking at the prints in the Irish News,
Jimmy Sullivan knew something was
in the wind; for had not the O'Rourkos
told his wife that Mrs. McGheoghau
had forbidden her husband to have
anything to do with that "low-down
6haloon-keeper, Jimmy Sullivan?"
"What'll yez have, me bye?" called
Jimmy, as the last uuin drew one of the
three towels hanging before the bar
ucross liis dripping mustache and
swung himself out into the street.
"Faith, but it's a long time since
I've had the good luck to grip yer fist,
man. Here's the crainu o' the sason till
ye."
If the thought of his wife came to
the hod-carrier at all, it probabl}'
brought a suggestion to make hay
while the sun shone, for he and Jimmy
filled and emptied glass after glass
while they smoked black cigars and
chatted over the "ould times" when
they were single. Sullivan kept the
clearer head, for it was part of his
TIIIC TWO WERS Finiiri.YO LIKE CATS.
business to do so, but even his speech
grew thick and he spilled his stock as
he served the two or three late cus
tomers that came in before he and Mc-
Gheoghan were left to themselves.
Long after the usual time of closing,
Sullivan's wife, who lived over the su
loon, looked timidly in through the
back door and asked Jimmy when he
was coming home.
"Git to out o' here wid ye, and
mind yer own business," was his an
swer. "That's tho way I talk till my
wife, Morris," he said. "You'd he bet
thcr off if you'd give yer own a taste
av the same when she's deludhcrin ye
wid her hifnlutin idees."
McGheoghan recalled the time when
he had known Mrs. Sullivan as pretty
Kitty Lafferty; und the barkeeper's
manner jarred the pleasant recollec
tion; he did not like to see his old :
tlarae treated like that, lie did not
relish free advice, either; and when
Sullivan spoke slightingly of Mrs. Mc- I
Ghoeghan it roiled him. Things were
rather hazy just then, but tho notion
crept into his head that he was doing
i wrong, and that Sullivan was rejoicing
In his lapse from virtue. To maintain
I his dignity ho considered it necessary
to impress Sullivan with the fact that
the McGhoeghans were people to be
| respected, so he says:
j "Me name's Mowreccliv."
"That's another fool idee yer wife's
made ye swally. Morris was good
enough for 3-0 when ye was a bye, but
when ye got married yer wife must go
changin* yer name. But ye'r Morris
for all that."
"Me name's Mowreecliy, and If ye
go fer to call me out av it, or say me
wife's name ag'in, I'll bate ye wid that
mug."
Sullivan leered at him derisively.
"Yer name's Morris McGheoghan,
and 3'er wife's a flannel-mouthed chaw
like yerself."
The impact of a beer glass over Sulli
van's left eye caused him to measure
his length upon the floor. The shock
roused him, however, and in a moment
the two were fighting like cats. The
crash of overturned tables and chairs
and of breaking glass would have caught
the attention of the patrol had that in
dividual not been dozing in the next
block. It would have awakened Mrs.
Sullivan had sue not been at that par
ticular time half asphyxiated in her
•deep b3' a smoking mantel-spread
which had fallen over the lamp left
burning for her husband.
The fire had smouldered for half an
hour and the room was filled with
smoke, when a spark fell on the table
and ignited a bit of paper. In an in
stant the room was in a blaze. A burn
ing curtain caught the eye of a late
traveler, who turned in an alarm. The
liook-and-laddcr truck dashed up to
the place, aud a fireman snatched the
i stupefied woman out of a burning bed,
| but ho did not notice the adjacent al
cove where little four-year-old Kitty
Sullivan lay dreaming.
When Maurice McGheoghan was
shoved away from his antagonist he
thought Jimmy's friends, had come to
take part in the scrimmage. But the
firemen's uniform and Sullivan's de
spairing cry of: "My God! whore's
"MOWRKECIIY," HE CRIED, "OOD BLESS
YE I"
Kitty?" roused an idea in his head.
The McGhcohans of Galway had noble
blood in their veins, and never desert
ed a female in distress.
The firemen were busy saving Sulli
van's stock. They did not liced the un
couth figure, with blood 3' face and
torn clothes, reeling through the back
door and up the narrow stairs.
Through stifling smoke and in water
and flame he groped his way, while
Sullivan was out on the street kneel
ing beside his wife, sprinkling her face
and chafing her wrists.
She opened her ©3'cs and gasped:
"Kitty." Sullivan had thought that of
course the child was saved with its
mother, but now the fear struck him
that this was not so. lie ran from one
to another of the bystanders, frantic in
his search, but 110 one had seen the
little girl. As in desperation he turned
to the burning rookery, a window
crashed out, and a burst of flame lighted
his road to the little stairway, lie
sprang toward it and nearly overturned
a staggering, ragged, blackened uud
begrimed man carrying in his arms a
bundle of bedclothes, from out of
which a voice called to Jimm3':
"Papa!"
lie throw both arms round the pair,
and two soiled and bruised faces met
in an Irish embrace.
"Mowroechy," he cried, "God bliss
ye!"—Lippincott's Magaziue.
Spurs for Gamecocks*
Steel heels or spurs foro fighting
cocks to take the place of the natural
spur are made in twenty or more va
rieties in shape and length; they are
sold all over the world. In the United
States spurs of different st3'les are
used In different parts of the country;
longer spurs are used in the south than
in the east aud north. The shortest
spurs are used in New York. The
standard length here is one and one
quarter inches; in all other parts of
the country the length is advanced.
A good sot of steel heels costs ten dol
lars. The spur projects from one side
of a ferrule or socket, which is like an
open thimble; a leather band is at
tached to the base of the ferrule. The
natural spur is sawed off, and when
the steel spur is used the ferrule is
placed over the stump and the leather
band is wound round the cock's leg
and bound with twine; a pad or
cushion is placed within the rim of the
ferrule to make it fit the stump of the
natural spur snugly and firmly. It is
said that if a well-bred gamecock,
•which had been without food until it
was nearly starved, should then be
placed in the presence of another
gamecock and of food, it would fight
before it would rat; in other words,
that it would rather light than eat.—
N. Y. Sun.
—Great men often produce their
ends by means beyond the grasp of
vulgar intellect, and even by methods
diametrically opposite to those which
the multitude would pursue. But, to
i effect this, bespeaks as profound a
knowledge of mind as that philoso
phcr evinced of matter, who first pro
duced ice by the agency of heat.—
Col ton.
A Cold Weather Joke.
A business man came down to his of
fice on a winter morning when it was
bitterly cold.
"Whew! how cold It Is!" he said to one
of the clerks. "Just shut that safo, if
3'ou please."
The clerk obeyed, with a puzzled
look. Then, when he could restrain
his curiosUy no longer, he asked:
"Excuse me, sir, but wli3'did you tell
me to shut the safe?"
"Why," replied his with a
sly chuckle, "there are a good many
drafts in that safe."
Coiifirleiitlous.
Wife —If I thought a thing was
wicked, I'd die before I'd do it.
Husband—So would I.
Wife—Huh! I think smoking cigars
is a wicked waste; an Impious defile
ment, in fact.
Husband—Then you should not
smoke. Hand me a match, please.—N.
Y. Weekly.
Criminal Note.
"Whaffor has dey got Jim Webster
in do Austin jail?" asked Uncle Moses
of Sam Johnsing.
"Fer steal in' two gallons ob molas
ses."
"Iso mighty sorry to hear It was
mcrlasses he stole, bekase dat am boun'
ter stick to him as long as he libs."—
Tbxas Siftings.
Safo anil Soporific.
Ph3*sieian —You must not occupy 3 r our
time with anything which requires the
slightest mental attention.
Patient—But, doctor, how can I do
that?
Physician—l will fix it. You are to
read all the recent "novels with a pur
pose."—Chicago Record.
Deciphering an Abbreviation.
"Ilere's a letter for Dugout, B. K.,"
said one postal clerk to another. "What
do you suppose B. K. stands for? Not
British Columbia, surely."
"No," replied the man addressed.
"That stands for 'Bleeding Kansas.' "
It was sent to the Sunflower state.—
Judge.
Even Up.
Ethel Singleton—But tell me, dear,
does a man get really angry every time
he comes home uud finds dinner Isn't
ready?
Mrs. Benedicf (sweetly)— Yes; just
about as angry as a woman gets every
time she lias it ready and ho doesn't
come home. —Puck.
That Ended the Dream.
At midnight In his guarded tent
The Turk was droamlng of the hour
Whon Greece, her knoo in suppliunce bent,
Would tremble at his power.
And In his dreams the foeman fell
Before his blade's fell stroke,
Aud everything had como his way—
And then the baby woko.
—Detroit Tribune.
The Modern Daughter.
"I wish to ask your permission to pa 3'
Hi3 r addresses to your daughter," said
the old-fushioned voting man.
"All right," said the old gentleman.
"If I can got her permission to give
3'ou my permission, go ahead."—lndi
anapolis Journal.
Poor, Blind Papal
Pereraann—Battle Is such nn affec
tionate daughter. This morning I
received such a tender, appreciative
three-page letter from her at school.
Ilattle's Sister (C3*nically)—What did
she ask you for iu the postscript?—
Truth.
Travels of the Puff.
Oldboy—l wonder where these big
puffed sleeves are going to end?
Guffy—l don't know; the bic3'cle girls
just now seem to wear them between
the waist and the knees!— Harper's
Bazar.
A Mean I.over.
I love to make my Mabel cry,
By Jealous taunts and Jeers.
For then I got a chance to try
And kiss uway hor tears.
—Harper's Bazar.
FORCE OF (RIDING) HABIT.
She stood ready, dreused for cycling,
In her latest costume, sweet:
And her husband, charraod, enraptured,
Could have worshiped at her foet.
She was In the act of mounting,
Yet she soemed to hesitate;
Tbon she asked with old-tlmo vigor:
"Are my bloomers on qulto straight?"
—Truth.
Mtrangc and Rare.
"llow Strange a Thing Is Man."
This was the title of her graduation
essay.
Afterwards she went to the summer
resort hotel and found that he was
even more so.— N. Y. Recorder.
What a (Question.
Chollcy Chumpey—l see that earrings
nrc coming into fashion again. Have
your ears ever been bored?
Miss Cafcistic —What a question!
Haven't I often listened to your twad
dle?— Syracuse Post.
Beginning to Feel at Home.
Senior Partner—l think this new
clerk Is getting used to our ways, don't
you?
Junior Partner —I think so. lie was
twenty minutes late this morning.—
Brooklyn Life.
Tho Long and Short of It.
"I hear Donaldsou is short in liis ac
counts."
"Well, he may be short in his ac
counts, but he is long enough in his
payments."-—Detroit Free Press.
FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. I
CHRISTINE NILSSON has just revisited i
Sweden, after an absence of eight J
years, to attend her nephew's wedding.
MR. STEAD wants to establish a baby
exchange, where those who have too
many children may dispose of them to
those who have too few.
M. DE PARIS, DIEBLER, the execution
er, was recently before a Paris police
judge for libeling the wine sold by one
of bis neighbors.
MR. ONSI.OW FORD, the sculptor, and
Mr. W. B. Richmond, the painter, have
just been elected to the Royal academy.
They were made associates in the same
year.
MRS. LESTER, who recently shot her
husband in India, and was condemned
to ten years' imprisonment, is a grand
daughter of John Braham, the tenor,
and a niece of the famous countess of
Waldegra\%.
CARDINAL LEDOCIIOWSKI, who bore
the brunt of the government persecu
tion during the period of the Knltur
kampf, is to celebrate his saeredotal
jubilee in a few days. The celebration
\yill be general throughout Germany
and Poland.
Two TWIN brothers in Paris, MM.
Jerome and Isidore Franclc, recently
celebrated their eightieth birthday to
gether. One of them wrote verses for
the occasion. They are brothers of the
lato Adolphe Franclc, the philosopher
and member of the Institute of France.
TIIE list of lady knights of the Le
gion of Honor has been swelled by the
name of Mine. Henry, the superin
tendent of the Paris Maternity hospital,
who owes the honor to the excellent
service she has done in the manage
ment of that institution.
THREE persons wore recently saved
from drowning at Ilythe, England, by
the courage and skill of Miss Evans, a
girl of tvvently-one. A man, woman
and child wore capsized in a boat near
the shore, and if Miss Evans had not
plunged into the water, clothed as she
was, they would not have been saved.
AH THE English law officers are no
longer permitted to retain their private
practice, Sir Edward Clarke, who was
solicitor general in Lord Salisbury's
last ministry, lias refused to again take
the office, though the salary is $30,000
and fees, averaging $12,000 a your, and
it is a sure step toward the lord chan
cellorship.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
SLANDER is the solace of malignity.
—Joubert.
BY searching the old learn the new.—
Japanese.
No LEOACY is so rich as honesty.—
Shakespeare.
THE sea drinks the air and the sun
the sea.—Anaereon.
TIIE truest self-respect is not to think
of self. —Beechcr.
UNREASONABLE haste is the direct
road to error.—Moliere.
DEAR weeps but once; cheap always
weeps. —Hindoo.
HABIT is too arbitrary a master for
my liking.—Lavater.
SIN is a basilisk whose eyes are full
of venom.—Quarlcs.
SOFT is the music that would char
forever.—Wordsworth.
MOST powerful is he who has himself
in his own power.—Seneca.
WHEN the heart speaks glory itself is
an illusion.—Napoleon.
THERE is even a happiness that makes
the heart afraid.—llood.
HE that hath not a smiling face
should not open a shop.—Chinese.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
THE water in shc ocean is said to
contain thousands of tons of gold, but
no practical way has yet been devised
to extract it.
EXPERIMENTS to find whether argon
can be obtained from vegetable or ani
mal tissue have resulted negatively, the
quantity of the new gas obtained in
this way not being appreciable.
PiitF. EMICRY E. SMITH, of California,
has succeeded by experiments in cross
fertilization in producing an entirely
new violet, highly scented and of great
beaut}'. In s'ze the flower covers an
American silver dollar. Its color is a
clear violet purple, which does not
fade. The fragrance is very power
ful.
LiquoßS may be aged artificially by
gradual I}' cooling them, in the case of
brandy, down to two hundred degrees
centigrade below Zero and then gradu
ally bringing them up again to the
normal temperature. The frigoric lab
oratory in which the new discovery is
to be applied will shortly be established
in Paris.
STATISTICAL PICK-UPS.
RECENT surveys show that one-sixth
of the state of Oregon, something over
10,000,000 acres, is covered with dense
forests.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S orange crop
this season has brought to the growers
about $1,350,000. Bartlett pears arc
now selling at $25 a ton.
THE apricot crop in California is com
paratively short this season. Pomona
county will produce only about 750 tons,
as against 2,800 tons last year.
ACCORDING to the tenth census, out
of a population of 50,000,000 over 17,000,-
000 were breadwinners, being a percent
age of 84.8 of the whole.
EAST LONDON has to get along with
25 gallons of water per day a head,
where Hamburg has 33, Toronto 77,
New York 100, Chicago 110 and Wash
ington 156.
MANY DOLLARS.
IN 1801 there were $407,000,000 in
gold, and $50,000,000 in silver.
THERE are over $120,000,000 worth of
hats now worn by our people.
OREGON, with all its resources, is es
timated to be worth $52,522,084.
THE state of Louisiana, sugar planta
tions and all, is worth $100,102,489.
THE state of Colorado was estimated
at the last census at $74,471,093.
WASHINGTON, including real and per
sonal property, is valued at $23,810,093.
WANT TWO SMOKESTACKS.
Cuislan Jews Refuse to Travel on a Vessel
Equipped with Rut One.
A steamship ticket agent on the East
side whose business is chiefly with Pol
ish and Russian Hebrews who are
about to return to their homes tells of
a peculiarity of his customers, says the
New York Tribune. No one of them
wants to travel on a vessel having only
one smokestack. Somehow these peo
ple have an idea that a ship is not safe,
handsome, comfortable and speedy un
less she has two or three stacks. Their
passage costs them only twenty dollars,
and they are not solicitous about baths
or the decorations of their quarters,
but on the point of a single funnel they
are as firm as a rock. A great many
passenger steamships have only one
stack. Some new ones in which the
steerage accommodations are especial
ly roomy and well ventilated have no
more, and the returning Poles insist
they will not travel on them. The
tibket agents feel no compunction
about assuring their customers that the
ship on which they are going to sail
has three "rocliers" (smokers), as the
Hebrews call them, and even point to
a big picture of her on the wall, which
serves as the likeness of any vessel
which may be talked of.
When the man and his family arrive
at the pier on the day of sailing there
is likely to bo trouble when he dis
covers that his ship has only one mis
erable smokestack. Sometimes the
people refuse point-blank to go on
board, and say they will wait for a
steamer with three "smokers." An ef
fective subterfuge has been invented
for such cases. Solemn assurance is
given that the ship has three or four
smokestacks, but that all but one short
one were taken down so that the ship
could pass under the Brooklyn bridge.
As soon as she got out to sea the ad
ditional stacks would be put in place
and .#lO would speed proudly on her
way. The ignorant East sider doesn't
know that vessels passing to sea from
the Hudson river never get within two
miles of the bridge, and takes his fami
ly on board. What ho says and does
when ho learns that he has been de
ceived does not bother the ship's offi
cers particularly.
RAVAGES OF GRAIN SMUTS.
Means of Prevention Outlined by the Agri
cultural College.
The ravages of the grain smuts are
reviewed and the means of prevention
outlined in a report of the agricultural
department. The oat smut, which is
found throughout the United States
and is known on every continent, prob
ably has the widest distribution of any
of the species. The official estimate of
the direct loss from it is eight per cent,
of the crop, or about eighteen million
dollars annually. Stinking smuts in
wheatfields cost the country many mil
lions of dollars annually. Sometimes
fifty or seventy* five per cent, of the
heads are smutted and the sound grain
is so contaminated with the fetid spores
as to bo nearly worthless for flour and
worse than useless for seed. The dis
ease is often spread from farm to farm
by thrashing machines. When once
introduced, if left unchecked it in
creases j'ear by year until a large per
centage of the crop is destroyed. The
loose smut usually causes a loss of ten
per cent, or more of the wheat crop,
and has even been reported as destroy
ing over fifty per cent, of a crop in
Michigan. It is very difficult to pre
vent, and ordinary treatment has little
effect. Wheat growers are urged to
try to secure seed wheat from fields
known by eifreful examination at flour
ing time to be free from loose smut. It
can, however, be combated by treating
rough wheat to furnish seed the follow
ing year. Both the common and hid
den forms of smut can be eradicated
with equal ease, and by treating seed
oats oat growers can save many mil
lions of dollars annually. Oat smut
can be eradicated by two newly-dis
covered treatments of the seed by use
of potassium sulphide and hot water.
Hot water is also advocated for erad
icating loose smut of wheat and barley
smut and copper sulphate for wheat
smut. The hot water and potassium
sulphite seed treatment result in an in
crease in the yield, averaging double
or treble what would result from sup
pressing the visible smut.
BICYCLE GUMS.
Another Physical Peculiarity Haiti to
Due to the Wheel.
Bicycle riding and poor teeth arc
about the last two subjects one would
place together, but that an overfond
ness for indulgence in exercise upon
the wheel is developing a diseased con
dition of the gums and teeth can be
testified to by many unfortunate vic
tims and their dentists.
It is caused, says the New York
World, by the extra effort necessitated
in ascending hills or in running races,
and the short, quick breaths of cold
air that, strike the overheated gums
through the open mouth develop a con
gestion of those parts. The face swells
as with an ordinary toothache, pus
fortius around the teeth and loosens
them, and in many cases leads to their
extraction later, and the pain is equal
to having all one's teeth ulcerating at
once.
A prominent dentist stated, when in
terviewed upon the subject, that he
had had several cases of that kind. "It
comes, he said, "from an abnormal
current of air, from fast riding, strik
ing the gums, and if the popularity of
the bicycle continues it will develop a
new feature in dentistry. At a private
meeting of several dentists the other
evening we found, upon comparing
notes, that these cases are increasing.
The only preventive is a difficult one
to follow, and that is, always ride with
the mouth closed. The same effect,
however, is caused by an unnatural
draft of air, as, for instance, sitting in
front of an electric machine for a long
period. I have had several cases of
that nature from hotel stewards and
their assistants, wnose offices are gen
erally situated in the basement, where
a change of air can be brought about
by artificial gieans."