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I was the eldest girl and hail married and settled not 44) miles from home, liut as I was something of an invalid, and the journey between my place of residence und my old home was broken by more than one change of railroad and a disagreeable waitof over two hours at a little wayside station, I did not olten take advantage of the nearness of my people. One night, in the fall of 1SS6, I awoke from an unpleasant dream alniul my father and next morning at breakfast astonished my husband by declaring that I was going home to see my pa rents. My husband made no objection to this move on my part, except regret ting that he could not accompany me. I was driven to the station and in due time arrived in the town of Middleton, the little place where I was born. It was a typical New England town, with its pretty, quaint, box-like houses w ith theirgreen-painted blinds, the nar ro.v village, streets well shaded with noble elms and maples, the latter now looking like enormous bouquets in their gaudy autumnal coloring. 1 found my father quite well and in the best of spirits, but several other members of the family had. like myself, Wen taken with a desire to visit theold folks, for I found that nearly all my brothers and sisters, w ilh t heir resjiec tive families, were there before me, so that the old' place looked quite like former days. While mother and Sister Kate were evidently very much pleased with the idea of having a kind of an unexiected family gathering, I could see that they were not a little perplexed as to how they were going to provide sleeping quarters for so many. My advent did not help in the least, as I was enough of an invalid to le a very ioor sleeper and a bad night was the forerunner of a 4s-ho-irs headache, a headache that had so far baffled medical skill. Where to put me, therefore, in order that I might le quiet enough to obtain sufficient sleep not to soil my visit, was the ques tion which troubled my mother anil Kate. However, my bachelor brother was the one who settled the matter by saying that I could have his room, anil that he could "bunk," as he termed it, elsew here. Nat was the postmaster had held the position through several ad ministrationsand was a person of note in the place. His room was an ex tension built on to the side wing of the house and as remote as ossibfc. in or der that his comings and goings should not disturb mother, who was a light sleeer. Mother and Kate were alike relieved by this arrangement, and I rejoiced in ha ing a room w here no household noise could possibly disturb my slumbers. We were a jolly crowd w hen we got together. I had forgotten my bad dream and was, in my quiet way, as merry as the rest. The fun and frolic continued until quite late. It. was al most midnight when Sister Kate es corted n.o to my room, and, nft : r seeing that evfTvthing was piovidcd for my comfort, retired, leaving me to my own devices to pass the time until I fell asleep. After Kate left me I looked about the apartment. It was to me the only strange room in the house where I was born. I also felt lonely, as I was not accustomed to room alone, and coming from the brightly-lighted sitting-room into the dimmer one may have brought aloiit a strange feeling which oppressed me. though 1 was not nervous at all. The room itself w as not attractive. It was an oblong apartment, not very high, with a door leading into the grounds, as well as the one connecting w ith the house, and these iloors w ere at least 15 feet apart. The furniture was not remarkable, except that it was de cidedly old-fashioned. The bedstead was a high four-poster. It stood with its side close to the outer wall of the room, and at the foot of it was an iron safe. It was a comfortable bed, though, however uninviting its iiosition, and I felt weary enough to sleep even in a strange place, so retired after iiaying due attention to the fastenings of the outer door, which I found of massive make and in good order, and, strange to say, I fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow and slept soundly for some time. How long the duration of that sleep was I never knew. I awoke with a start from the self-same dream which I had the preceding uight, and amid w hat appeared to be a babel of voices, one of which I heard say distinctly: "Not now until the 15th." There had been something strange nltout the dream of the preceding uight. While it left the impression of undue unpleasantness and I knew that it con cerned my father, I could not recall a single incident of it. Hut now I could rememler that there was in it some ref erence to the 5th. and that was all. although I had evidently dreamed it the second time. When I had fully re coxercd my waking senses I sat up and tried to pierce the inteuse darkness of the room. The voices had undoubtedly lieen dream voices, for no one was in the. room. Yet the words had made such au impression on me that they had apjiarently fastened themselves in my brain, for "Not now until the 15th" seemed to stine as if branded in tire on the deep gloom of my chamber. The day lefore had been the 5th of the month: ten days oft was the 15th! What was to occur uxn that date? There is no need for one to say that that night was full of horrors. Every form of trouble and disaster paraded lcfore my mental vision, until the darkness through which my eager eyes could not pierce began to grow ap palling to me, end the silence which had succeeded to my disturbed dream was so oppressive that itseenud to me at that moment I would have welcomed anv sound, however disagreeable. I had sunk bock upon my pillow, after my first uneasy start, and now laiscd myself once more to a sitting po sition, resolved to get out of bed and procure a light to dissolve my fancies, when a sound fell upon my strained sense of hearing, at first astonishing nie, later filling me with alarm and finally entirely removing from me any desire to get out of bed, for the present, at least. This sound was the rhythmical brea tiling of a man, wlio was evidently sunk in the profoundest slumber. To listen to the so und of snoring is not pleasant at any time.' but to hear the whole scale run up and down the gamut of isound from under one's bed i-s ap palling. As soon as 1 had located the sound it robbed me of the hist remnant of courage, while my kite ghostly fancies gave way at once to fears. Could I have indeed heard voices out' side my dream? Was ; here a plot to rob my brother, who, as pt uiafcter, had alniut this date considerable cash on hand from t he money order business, Middleton being a factory town, and numbers of non-residents working there in the busy season and sending heme their earnings to family and friends? What was I todo? How-was I to act under the circumstances? I can never describe the agony of terror which I endured as I lay there, listening, hardly daring to breathe myself, to those unmusical -sounds. When the first faint peep of day came creeping through the shutter slats I Ik-gan to form my plan of reaching the door. As t he bed was against the w all I had, of course, only one side to choose from in getting out. But I thought if I could work my way toward the foot, I should have at least a gain of a few feet nearer the inside door in my favor. Slowly and painfully I worked my way through the bulging feathers, rejoicing that no modern ledstead upheld me, for not the falnest creak did the frame un w hu-.h I reeded emit as I pursued my plan of retreat. I had almotd reached the foot of the led when the sounds Wncath me suddenly stopped. In mortal terror now- of the conse quences I became deserate, and gave -ne headlong plunge forward toward the door, at the same time littering a piercing shriek. Then I fainted. When I came to myself my head was very wet and I was stiff all over. I heard voices, two of w Inch I recognized as those of Nat and Kate. There was also a third voice, which I soon made out to le the doctor's. I was not very par tial to medical men, jHThaps, because I had seen so many of them. I heard Nat say: "It was a great wonder that he did not attack her lefore. I suptose he must have stolen in when I went there to get my things in the evening." "It was a mercy that you came, Nat," said Kate. The doctor added: "She is coming to. You must keep her quiet and try gradually to find out what, led up to the attack. I will call later." Soon I opened my eyes to find myself ion a couch in the sitting-room' and Nat's serious face bending over mine. "Did you catch him?" I asked. "Catch who. Fan, dear?" inquired Nat, with a puzzled expression. "Why, the burglar, to be sure." "There was no burglar to catch." "Well, that is calm, to say the least," 1 remarked, sarcast ieully, rising to a sitting position and putting both hands to my drenched head. "After the ter rible night that I have put in, why did you let the wretch escape?" "It was not a burglar. Fan." "If he was not a burglar, pray what was he, and w hy was he secreted under the bed? I only wonder that he did not kill me outright, though I am sure I could not have suffered more if he had. First frightening the life nearly out of me by his snoring and then actually bouncing upon me at the last when I tried to call assistance. And after all this you calmly tell me there was no burglar! You will tell me next that there was no man!" I exclaimed, savagely. "Neither was there any man, Fanny, dear," said my brother, with a dawn ing smile. "Your burglar was a burglar-catcher my good mastiff. Watch." "What !" I exclaimed, "have I endured all the terror of the past dread f ul night because of an old dog?" "Certainly, because of a dog, my dear Fan, though not by any manner of means an old one. Watch is possibly two years old at the utmost. I am aw fully sorry. Fan, that you, with your oor health, should have been disturlied." Others have complained of his ability in the snoring line. I, myself, never hear him. But I am so thankful that he did not injure you that I have no room for grief over your discomfort, for, remember, you were a stranger to hiin. He was standing over you in a very threatening attitude when Kate found you. Fortunately, I came in just then, as I was restless and could not sleep. T?ut I learned something, my dear sister.of w hich I was lefore doubt ful, and that is that there is one woman who does not examine under her bed before retiring." This last was said with a laugh, in which Kate joined as soon as she saw me sitting up. "No, but you better believe that I will after thus," I made answer, as I fel back on the couch. I was not seriously hurt by my fall, though I had cut my head a little. I caught a bad cold from the drenching the old doctor administered to bring me around. I did not hear the last of the burglar during the remainder of my visit, nor, indeed," for many a long day afterward. Nothing happened to my dear father on the 15th, nor up to this lay. But out. of that night of terror grew the habit in which so many of my sex indulge of looking under the bed. My husband says that if I slept upon a single mattress on the floor I would raise the edge to look under to see if a burglar was flattened out beneath. Philadelphia Times. An Elizabethan Tomb. A superbly rich Elizabethan tomb is left to us in Boreham church. Essex. This was erected to the memory of Thomas Kadcliffe, earl of Sussex, lord chamberlain, and known as the stern opponent of Ieiocster. Three knights in martial costumes lie on the tomb fclab, one of which is his son and the other his grandson. Walpole incident ally states that the earl bequeathed It 1.500 to be exjiended on this tomb, ami that his executors agreed with a lmteh sculptor, ICichard Stevens, to ex ecute his part of the work for 202 12s Sd. The earl and his son were first buried in the Church of St. Laurencr; Poultney, in the metrojiolis, and then removed to Boreham at the instance of the grandson. Cornhill Magazine. KEPT AHEAD OF THE BULLETS. Aatonndloa; Swlftnea of root Shown by a Georgia Kacor-Hatch. Col. Taylor Jenkins, who lives a few miles north of Blakely, is known throughout that section as one of the moot truthful men in it. At least, so says the Early County Times, lie cently, while Mr. Jenkins was out hunting, his dogs began lerk:ng at something in a large hollow log. It was a w ild hog. He took the hog home and dropped it in his cornfield. It is there now. A few weeks ago Mr. Jen kins went out to kill it, thinking he could easily do so with his unerring rifle. He searched about till he "jumped" it. Down a corn row it wenr like lightning. He leveled his rifle and "cut down" on it, but never touched a hair. He "jumped" it again and shot again, but no hog. Again and again he "jumped" it and sliot at it. with the same result. He began to wonder w hat could le the matter. 'I he corn row were as straight as moonshine whisky and his gun true as the third party to Tom Watson, yet hit it lu couldn't. Tu shoot at t lie hog as it ran on down the corn rows was just like shooting at it standing, so far as getting a "bead on it" was concerned. To make sun? that he did n't wobble" on the bog he put up a small target and ' cracked down" at it five times, then took his. ax and choped in and found Ave bails all in one hole in the middle of the spoU That settled it that tlae fault was not iu him or t lie gun, but the hog had out run the bullets. LONDON DOGS OUT CALLING. Their Card! Oo Up with Thoao of Their Mtatraaao. It appears, from an article in the Figaro by M. Taul Megnin, that iu Lou don at t he prese n t ti me 1 1 is not on ly t he fashion for a lady to provide her laj dog with a little wardrobe and even a handkerchief, but to have visiting cards made for it, loo. When a fashionable lady pays a visit, taking her lapdog with her, she sends up the dog card along with her own. M. Megnin says he was visiting the editor of one of the leading sporting pa ers in London, when the servant brought in tw o cards, one that of a lady and the other as follows: MRS. FRIVOLITY. : : Collie. : Asked if he knew the name on the card, M. Megnin said he presumed it was some dog fancier. He was greatly surprised to see a lady come in, accom panied by a handsome collie. M. Megnin went to a stationer's shop ami ordered UNI cards for his little rtog. He was again surprised to luid that the stationer had some ready printed, neat ly packed in pretty little card cases. BEN FRANKLIN'S BIG HEAD. How lie Wore Hla Wig In Hla 1'oeket at the French I'nort. The difficulties encountered recently by the lineal descendants of that great man. statesman, patriot and everything else that men properly hold in estima tion Benjamin Franklin in having themselves enroll! among the Colonial Dames, recall au anecdote of In ni, says the Washington Poet, embalmed in the family records of the sage of Mon tieello, but which, so far as the writer knows, has never been published. When about to present himself for the first time at the court of Versailles he was informed by the master of ceremonies that a wig was a sine qua non. Now, his head was so large that no ordinary wig would begin to tit it, and the situ ation was embarrassing iu theextrcme. However, one was found sufficient ly large to pass him through the ante claamlers, after which he was permit ted to remove the ridiculous conven tional appendage and place it in his ample pocket, whence it never again emerged to public gaze. The Ways of the llpiiunn. Just why the great zoologists of the present day should have chosen to con sider the opossum au animal of a lower order than the stupid hjkI helpless sloth, and the third order from the lowest of all, is not so easy to under stand as it ought to lie. As a mat ter of fact, nature has done, a great deal for the oiossuni far more than foj the great majority of quadrupeds. Note w luit the creature is, and can do, and match it if you can. It ents almost everything that can lie chewil wild fruit, lierries. green corn, insect larvae, eggs, young birds and quadm--eds. soft-shelled nuts and certain roots. It is a good climber, and has a very useful prehensile tail. It for ages on the ground quite as successful ly as any squirrel. It usually burrows under the roots of large tret. where it is impossible for the hunter to dig it out ; but sometimes it makes the mis take of choosing a hollow log. When attacked, it often feigns death to throw its assailants oft the-ir guard. Like the War and woodehiick. it stores up a plentiful supply of fat for winter use. when fotid is scarce; avid, above all; the femide has a nice, warm pouch in which to carry and protect, her help less young, instead of leaving them iu the nest to catch their death of cold, or lie devoured by some enemy. W. T. liornaday, in St. Nicholas. KngUan II amor. A strange society was brought to light during the hearing of a case be fore the Thames magutrate. Several men were charged with stealing a watch from a sailor, ajid were, all dis charged except Alexander Fullerton. on whom was found a savings hank book for $245 and a card of membership of a society with a curious title. It bore the following inscription: "Na tional Liars' association Having been a member of the above association, and finding you are a bigger liar than my self, I must congratulate you on re lieving rive of this card." It must be gratifying to the East end community, as well as a tribute to Fullerton's own abilities, that he had found no one worthy of relieving him of the card. The magistrate remanded him for in quiries. Death In Japan. There are no undertakers in Japan.. When a person dies his nearest rela tives put him into a coffin nnd bury him. The mourning' does not begin until after burial. I . -iaw SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION Movement of the World's Popula tion Takes a New Direction. la Thin Country the Tendency la Most Marked Many Northern and West ern t mruiers Are Movinc llown South. The next great movement of popula tion that the world is to witness will lie southward. The conditions are now all favorable. It has required a quarter of a century since the war to bring altout the changes that were necessary to make the south a thoroughly attractive country for northern and western farm ers. All the questions relating to xs sible race troubles had to be settled; the prejudices, engendered on both sides by the war had to die out, and the fact that the south could produce other things than cotton had to Ik demonstrated. The construction after the war, of railroads through the west and nothwest by the aiil of enormous land grants made It absolutely net-es-sary that these roads, controlled as they were by the leading financial pow ers of Euroiie and America, should bend their energies and unite the influences of all the financial forces concent rate. I in them to turn population westward. The south ww in 110 condition to in vite immigration, even if it had been in its power to accomplish anything against such a combination of forces as were at work in liehalf of the west. But a great change has come ami all the disadvantages under which th- south has labored are lieing removed. During the last five or ten years there have set 1 1,, I Iieie and there all over the south a few northern and western farm ers, whose great success is now lieiug made known to all I heir friends in their former homes. This is awakening a direct interest in the south iu all parts of the west au interest such as could be aioused in no other way. From every section of the north, the west and northwest, ami even from Cali fornia, requests for information about the south and its advantages for set tlers are licing received. Items of news from several thousand towns and vil lages from Maryland to Texas pass In fore the writer every day. The most striking feature in this mass of news so pronounced that it would impresi it.self even iioii the most casual reader is the number of settlers reiiorted from day to day as lM-at ing in the sou t h. This is entirely a-new thing. A year ago items of this kind were rare. Now every issue of every southern pajier has something in it about immigration mat tersand the incoming of new eopre,and even now thousands of western and northern farmers are settling in the south. Kichard H. Edmonds, in Chau tauqua u. UPSTAIRS BY EXPRESS. The Through Klcvatora Run In Tall Buildluga. "All aliourd seventh floor, first slop." I Ti. :.. . . i-iy it-eieu a reporter the other day as he stepped into a down-town office building and faced a half dozen elevators. He wished to go to the ninth floor. He stepixd into an elevator over which was the sign: "Express first stop, seventh floor." In it thei-:; were three men and a middle-aged woman. The starter said "All right," and the elevator man grasped the throttle of the "express." It was the usual cable rope, and as the man pulled it lngan its journey Uh ward. The lone woman iiassensrer gave vent to a slight "Oh." and hHd her breath. Floor after floor wai passed at a sliced of about eight miles an hour. When the sixth floor was reached the woman wanted to get off, but was in formed that slie was on an express, and it was against the rules to stop an express unfil its destination was reached. The elevator arrived at the seventh floor on time. It took exactly eight stcouds to make the upward jour ney of 85 feet. The elevator man then announced that the next stop would be the top floor, 100 feet above. The top floor, according to the directory, was the 14th, and the elevator flew upward once more, arriving near the roof a few seconds later. "We can nial.e a round trip in 45 sec ends, including short stops," said the engineer of the express, "but we have made il in about 40 without stops. There sire two express elevators and four regulars, that we call way trains. I bey stop at every floor and for every body who shouts. Often I get fiasseli gers who want to get out at the sixth or tenth floors. They get mad. too, when they are told they must go up and take another elevator down. The other express makes no intermediate stops at all during the busy hours." N. Y. Press. 11 amor In the Family. "One of those lazy, good-for-nothing tramps called to-day and wanted a piece of pie," said the landlady, during a momentary silence. The bachelor lioarder faltered and laid dow n his knife and fork. "And did he get it?" he queried, anx iously. "Not much," returned the landlady; "he got a piece of my mind instead." "Which probably destroyed his." pied the thin lioarder in the tenor voice from the foot of the table. "His what?" demanded the landlady, sternly. "Peace of mind," explained the thin boarder, apologetically. Everybody cried out in applause at this. One could even hear the pea soup and see the jelly roll. Chicago News. Don't K.ljce Skirts with For. One of the distinctive features of the season's dressing is its use of fur and velvet and silk and cloth in combina tion for the fashion ing of gowns. A re cent walking costume consists of nut brown, smooth-faced cloth, the bodice decked with a deep yoke formed of al ternate strips of fur and emerald preen velvet. The high collar is bordered with fur, and so are the cuffs of the vel vet sleeves and the full, plain skirt. This sounds odd. A year ago it would have looked so. For a walking cos tume au edging of fur at the skirt's bot tom is objectionable liecause it wears out so rapidly, gets bedraggled in the mud and stirs up dust to soil the under clothing;. St. Louis Hepublic. j MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. On stoves and furnaces 1S.240 pat ents have beeu issued covering everv part of these indispensable articles of comfort. Five generations of one family are living on a homestead at llunNt'uu 11. tia. The head of the family. W. t. Cherry, has i:i6 liv ing des-eu.laiits. After the cocoons intended for the silk manufacture have lieen tinishe! the worms arc killed by the heat eitln r of steam or of hot water. If the insects were allowed to esaie the value of tJie cocoons would lie lessened. For several years an old soldier has beeu compelled, by verty. to live in the poor ho use of Carroll count v. M.i He has just received a .elision, and lias decided to remain in the tioorhoiise and pay his lioard, because he likes his home there so well. Indiana's oldest residents are Alex ander Ferguson and his sister of of Frankton. Alexander is M:: year old and his sister 107. Alexander worked on the farm every day. doiiii; the ordinary chores of the place until he had passed his KHJth birthday, and is still in excellent health. He takes a daily walk of a little more than two miles. His wife is over 90 ami is iu gvo.I health. The army rules are that two-inch ice will sustain a man or prt.jierly spaced infantry; four-inch ice will carry a man on horseliaek or cavalry or light guns; six-inch ice. heavy field guns, such as N oiiiiders eight-inch ice, a battery of artillery with car riages and horses, but not over I.ikhi pounds per square foot on sledges; and ten inch ice sustains an army or nil in numerable multitude. On 15-inch ice railroad tracks are often laid and oim-i-ated for months. The most important, as well as the commonest metal in the world, is iron It is almost everywhere in nature. We are bombarded from cosmic spai-os l mcteorolites of nearly pure iron: the siectroscope finds it in stars so dlstajit that the naked eye sees but emptiness in the abysses wherein they burn. I! makes a 12th part, of the crust of the earth. Its particles are mingled in the dust of every country road, in the ar we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat. It is the great color is! of nature. Even the red of our blood is due to its presence. HL WAS RIGHT. The One Juror Mho Stood Out Against Kleen Otaattnate Men. A standing joke around the Main courts is the juror w ho stands out an.l refuses to agree with the eleven ob stinate men. who don't think as he floes. Judges are not apt to take kindly to this style of man, and have iieen know 11 011 occasions to give him a terrible suul bing. "There is still lit ing in this city." says a Bangor gent leiiian. who thinks jurors have rights of opinion as well as judges, "a man who is very proud of a little exiierienoe he had as a juror. It was in Judge Cut ting's day. and that ex cellent jurist was on the Wneh. The jury had heard an important ea.se, and failed to agree because this iarticular juror stood out against the arguments and solicitations of his fellows, and de clared he would stay there till the ants ate him up and carried out his remains through the keyhole before he would consent to what he believed to lie an un just verdict. Judge Cutting asked how they stood, and the foreman replied, 'eleven to one, your honor. 'W ho is the one?' asked the judge, angrily. Let In ui stand up. The juror arose and received a scathing rebuke from Mr. Cutting, who lermporily discharged him from further duty. The case went over to the next term, and was again tried, resulting in a verdict in acord ance with the views of the one juror. It was then taken to the law court on mo tion for a new trial and was upheld by the full liench as mainfestly right. The man says that whenever he thinks of that case, he thanks Cod he had the sand t-j stick to what he believed to lie right, and take the rebuke a mistaken judge gave him for so doing." This w ill 1. for an exceptional case, but the one man against the 11 is not always filled with good judgment as this one seems to have been. Lewiston (Me.) Jour nal. ABOUT PERFUMES. Perfumes were introduced into Spain by the Arabs, who brought many re cies for making them from the east. Naiioleon loved jierfumes, and al ways had a bottle of rose water or vio let water emptied into his bath tub. From the offensive fusel oil the skill of the chemist has been able to extract the odors of several flowers and fruits. The recipes of over 300 different oils and perfumes have iieen preserved in the remains of Roman literature. In many of the perfume factories of south Euroiie only the purest olive oil is used in fixing the perfumes of flow ers. Nearly every known perfume is now successfully imitated by the sympa thetic processes of the chemical lalwira tory. Pastilles are wafers made to lie set 011 fire and in the process of burning giv. forth the odor of certain plants or flowers. Every sacrifice offered on a Roman altar was perfumed either with flow ers or with some odor extracted from them. The Southern Aurora. On February 1, in latitude 66 degrees, longitude 172 degrees 31 minutes, we ran into open water again, having this time spent only six days in the ice-pack. On the 17th the aurora appeared, stronger than I ever saw it in the north. It rose from the southwest, stretching in a broad stream up toward the zeuith and down again toward fhe eastern horizon. The phenomenon this time had quite a different appearance from what we saw on October 20. It now presented long shining curtains rising and falling in wonderful shapes and t hades, sometimes seemingly close down to our mastheads. It evidently exerted considerable influence upon the. magnetic needle of our compass. C. E. Borchgrevink. in Century. "How do you sell this music pa per?" asked the customer at the sta tionery store. "I'm not certain about it," said the new clerk, "but I think we sell it by the choir." Chicago Tribune. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A 5.1-foot granite shaft, the long st pie.-." of granite ever taken out of a quarry in eruiout. was quarried dl Barre a few days ago. C ats can kuw-11 even" during sleep. When a piece of meat is placed imme diately in front of a sleeping cat's nose the uostrils l-giu to work as the scent is received, an.l an instant later the cat will wake up. "Instead of colds coming from at-mosplu-ri.- changes, as iw-opie general ly suppose." ;IVS a Ilot4ni ,,Uysician. "they g ncrallv originate, in my opin ion, ,y bieathing impure air. Ninetv iiiue , r cent, of what are termed cold are noihing more m.r less than the Jioisonii.g o; the mucous membranes by bad air." Orange growing in Arizona is de olared to have passed t he ex; rimentai staue. and will lw-cme an important industry in the tetnu rv. This vei'r's crop in t!re Salt river valley, where 1'iost of the ejriiiiciitul groves are situated, is large and of excellent qual ity. The Arion.i. oranges rij-en some what earlier than those in southern California. Seventy tliousand tons of the stern an.l r.n k U.und coast of Maine, were shipped from two quatri.-s alone last year. The total amount of gran ite shipped away yo.ir!y reaches aa sstouiidiiig- fig i:re. arid .h g.-oirraph v of the Maine naM is Ix-ii .p toniidera 1 ly changed by the cutting out and shipping away of islands of granite and not a little of the mainland. I.as. y-ar S5.1 15i3 fewer cigars were made in the l nit.nl States than iu iH4. and vS5-,:;o - more - unds or smoking tolsus-o was manufactured. During the year there were manufac tured in the country 4.1V-15.2' cigars, 3.7..'jl l.f.77 cigarettes. 25f.l, ..ii5 iiomids of toliacco and 11.7u5.414 pounds of snuff. There w as an increase :n the output of cigarettes by 435.767. ('77 over Wi-i, and a u.-crease of 477,-1-0 liounds in the amount of snuff man ufactured. Mixtures of air with lesn than 7.7 ht cent, of acetylene burn compleU ly to wat'.-r and carlsn dioxide, according to M. I ('hotelier's exjH-riiiients, rc iiortcd to the Academic des Sciences; with Iw-tvveen 7.7 and 17.4 t cent, of acetylene the products coiisistof water, cailtou monoxide and dioxide, and h droL'en. with a larger .erceiitace of aetylene, free carlon and unburnt rcety lene are found. With oxygen mixtures containing ln-tween 2.- and 'JJ ki tent, of acety l.-ne will catch fire with air; the limits a-e 2.s and 05 er cent. In tul.es these limits are tar lowed down, till in I ul.es of one-half a millimeter or less it is impossible to propag.iie a flame. FAMILY ARITHMETIC. A Connecticut VlilhrninUrlu aud His yueer freak. The strange names Iwstowed upon helpless children by their parents have formed the subject of many auii's ing stories. In a Connecticut town, some years ngo, there lived a peculiar couple who selected the names of their children apparently with a view of ed ucational exercises. There were. 14 children in the family, and they were named for the nu'nerals in regular order, beginning with "One." The father was locally famous as a mathematician and during the early years of his children rbey had a dai!y tuition which seemed extraordinary to their playmates, who were pro vided with every day names. "Three ard Four go out to the wood 1hx and get your mother some kind lings, the mathematical father would say , appearing before a group of his numerical offspring. ThVee and Four would keep on play ing ball, or whatever game hapjiened to Ih- cutroe-siiig their attention, but a diminutive crso:i who commonly answered to the name of "Seven" was sure to drop his play, and start for the w ood box. One memler of this family, who re joiced in the cognomen "Two," lived .to attan considerable distinction, and the record of some of his achievements and successes is preserved in the town history, together with a short account of the various sums in addit'on, sub traction, multiplication and division which his father devised from the material afforded by his children, and in which the youthful "Two" played au important part. TIP IT." A Trivial I'astinie lobular Among Lan cashire liiml'l.T. Among the strange sjjrts of Lanca shire is a game known variously as "coddam" or "tip it." As the. Iiucashiiv man of sjorticg tendency must have a w ager on every thing that engages his attention, a lot of money changes hands on tlii.s game, generally in a small way. but quite fre quentiv iu substantial sums. Indeed, says London Answers, there is a recog nized champion player of "tip it," who is open to buck himself for 25 to "lick creat ion." And this is how it is played: The rival players take a button, or some small article, and sit on opiosite sides of a table. The beginner puts his hands under the table, aud. taking the button in one of them, raises Lis closed fists into view, and the business of the other is to say iu w hich hand the button is rn-ld. The button changes sides as it is found, and t he game goes on until the points are reached. It is often played w ith two or four a side, and the champion will meet a dozen at a time, and discover the hand holding t he button by a sort of instinct. The itosifion of the thumbs decides whether the game is "coddam" or "tip it." On this trivial '.aKtime hundreds of iKvuuds change hands every year in some parts of lincashire. Trained tioats. In Swiaerland and other mountain ous countries the goat leads long1 strings of animals daily to and from the mountains, but it is in South Africa that it is particularly kept aud em ployed as a leader of floclvs of sheep. Should a blinding storm of rain or hail drive the silly sheep liefore it, or cause them to huddle together in a corner, sc as to suffocate enoh other, the trained goat w ill wake them up, an.l hy a method best known to himself will induce them to follow Lim to a place of safety. I ir