GRANT COUNTY
The Pa per for the .Farm,
the Workshop and the
Home.
The Paper for the Stack
mrw, Jftrcfutnl .and
J finer
C.IA'YOA' CITY, GU.'LYT COUXTY. OHKUO.Y, Til U PS DA Y. ,l'L )' sfd, ISO I.
jYamber IS.
I olainc A' If.
NEWS.
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Smelting Stiver.
A nmelting furnace is lull and of
oblong shape, nliout VE I feet high.
f.ft long awl feel wile, the lower j
part of it wall built of tlotihle runt
imn l.xi cnHrl water jacket, j
throne, h which a constant stream of.
water num. 1hu preventing their
lieing melted away ly th fierce
heat nithiti the furnace. The wall
aljout t!i water jacket fl re of fire
brick . lklow tin- water jacket
tuU called tuyer admit a atrong
blast of air driven by pumping urn
t hine colled blower. The load
and itilrer are put in rI the top,
mixed with coke and linwMone and
altto with iron ore. The iron and
lead turn and Hmo arts hp (luxe for
tlroroughly melting and reducing
the silver "ore. If me, Milphur and
rtriHjnic arc prevent, whieit it fre
quently tin cane, the on tnu.-t pre
viouitly be Kulijeeted to a cherry-red
ltcnt, in low, Hal furnace called
hunting furnace, winch driven oil'
lhee more volatile metal. The
non ten U of the blaal furnace being
melted, the silver and gold nettle at
the extreme owrt point of the fur
nace; junt above ihnu the copK-r,
if there i copper: above that the
lend and still further up the slag
If you look into the furnace from
the top you fee nothing but tho
unmelted fresh ore, the hoi maws
below it giving no token of it pres
ence save by faint oozing of light
vapory smoke. The molten metal
U drawn oft' from the bottom from
time to time and received in moulds,
while from a vent about two feet
higher in drawn the hot fluid flag
JCach of the three kindB of material
which go into the furnace requires
the labor of many hands. Not only
are busy miners delving in the
drifts and tunnels of Lcadville,
Kilverton, Ouray and Silver I'lill',
but other toilers win bread by quar
rying limestone at I 'ape Horn and
still others by digging coal ami
stoking the cuke ovens at 101 Moro;
aiout ilU men aie employed at
lhiamelter. For everything in a
smelter there are two hhifts of men,
working day anil night. A blast
furnace, whether producing iron or
lead, cannot stop for night or Sun
day. It must lx kept going or the
great quantity of molten metal with
in its water-jacketed, lire-bricked
wnlls would still and harden into a
solid mass that nothing less than
dynamite couUl remove. Uegular
shipments eastward are made of the
various products of the smelter,
llig heavy bars of jug lead are ship
I led daily. The small and hand
some copjier bars, weighing only
about eighteen pounds each, bearing
the pmjier brand, are shipped in
barrelt a barrel holding 1 ,(XK)
Kunds of copper. Tho refined sil
ver conies out in bricks of about
1,'2H.) troy ounces each. An aver
age shipment is eighteen of these
brick. They go every alternate
day by exj.rn. Dollars and half
dollars, quarters and dimes made of
silver, smelted and refuted in I'tteblo,
Colorado, are jingling in jieople's
pockets and buying their bread in
every city and village in the I'nion
nnd in India and China. Kveu the
refuse of a smelter is of use. It
lakes a big squad of men to "pull
mjIs." This is to haul away the
alag. The slag from a smelter is
extremely heavy material, much
heavier than that from iron fur
naces, and is therefore ciiccially
useful in building or lining levees
and reservoirs. Slag from the I'tt
eblo autelter is scattered along the
railroads at every btidge and ttjait
exposed to the washing of streams
for'itX) miles. The Ureal Divide.
A newspaper in Ohio recently
brought suit against forty-three men
who would not my their subscrip
tion and obtained judgment in each
oaae for the amount of each claim.
Of these twenty -eight made allidavit
that they owned no more than the
law allowed, thus preventing attach
ment. Then, umkr the decision of
supreme court, they were arrested
for jH'tit larceny and bound over in
tho sum of :!ij each. All but six
gave l-ond, while six went to jail.
The new jwstal law makes it larceny
to lake n 0er and not pav for it.
Toledo Blade.
Several thousand Italian iinuii
grout have lately gone to Itnuil.
Iet us hoe the title will continue
to How in that direction. They and
many other nationalities will llnd
more elbow room thcto than here
nml a tetter chance to grow up
with the countty.
Tolstoi's socialistic community in
Russia has gone to pieces because
of the continuous wrangling of its
members. It is easy to picture a
community of angels on wper, hut
ill prattle It luw always proved too
ijtueji for iour human nature to accomplish.
A Movlnp Mountain.
A traveling motinjain is found at
the Cascades of the Columbia. It
is n triple peaked mass of dark
brown bnsalt, six or eight miles in
length where it fronts the river, and
rise to a height of almost 2tHl feet
above the water
That it is in motion is the last
thought which would lo likely to
suggest itself to the mind of anyone
passing it; yet it is a well establish
itl fact that this entire mountain is
moving slowly but steadily down
the river, as it it had a deliberate
purHc pome time in the future to
dam Iho Columbia and form a great
river from thu Cascades to The
Dalles.
The Indian traditions indicate
immense movements of the mount
ains ihcrealiouts, long before white
men came to Oregon, and the early
settlers, immigrants, many of them
from New Kugland. gave the ahove
described mountainous ridge the
name of "traveling mountain" or
''sliding mountain."
In its forward and downward
movement the forests along the base
of the ridge have become submerged
in the river. Large tree stubs can
be seen standing deep in the water
on the shore. The railway engineers
and tin1 trackmen find that t lie hue
of the railroad which skirts the foot
of the mountains is being contin
ually forced out of place. At cer
tain pnittis the roadbed and rails
have been pushed eight or ten feet
out of line in the course of a few
yea is.
Otologists attribute this strange
phenomenon to the fact that the
basalt which constitutes the bulk of
the mountain rests on a substratum
of soft sandstone, which, the deep,
swift current of the mighty river ts
continually wearing away, or that
this softer stthrock is of itself yield
ing, at great depths, to the enormous
weight of the harder material alove
Let a man talk "dull times" and
it is infectious; everybody in the
place uets tho blues and in turn
talks dull times; and from hustling
around to stir up, and take care of,
what business there is, they all get
to sitting down and moping over
dull times. I f a customer happens
to drop into one of these "dull time"
stores, he gets scared of buying half
as much as he actually expected to,
because everybody looks so blue.
He catches the spirit of the store,
and resolves to hang on to his mon
ey with a death-grip. This bug
U'lir of dull limes ought to be "f-ot
down" Uhiii. It is doing more to
kill business than anything else.
Tell a well man he is sick, keep it
up, and you can at last hound him
to death. Monmouth Democrat.
.
In some localities the alliance is
growing in disfavor Itccause of the
secrecy enjoined on its members.
It is claimed, with good reason,
that it is a io)itical organization
gotten up for the public good it
should make all its acts public and
have no secrets that will not bear
thu sunlight of investigation. A
secret society is generally supjsscd
to lc one aiming at the good of its
members only. Of course no one
objects to the alliance having secrets
of its own as long as it stays out of
isditics, but when it attempts to run
the olitical gauntlet it should drop
its pass word and let its latch string
hang out. Portland Dispatch.
A Knights of Lalmr journal in
advocating government control of
railroads, says: "Kailroad trains
can Ik- run from the Atlantic to the
Pacific at a cost of less than foOOO
each; anil, as statistics prove that
more than .'ll") jKirsons ride on each
train, getting on and oil, during the
six days it takes to run from here
to San Francisco, tho fare need not
Is- more than i for every passenger
if the railroads belonged to the
H-ople of this country.
The progress made by tho world
during the past hundred years in
the appliance of scientific truth to
all classes of human activity has
Ih'cii greater than in all the preced
ing centuries combined. The
achievements even of the last fifty
years have been so marvelous that
nothing appears iuiKisMhle in the
future. There seems to be no limit
to the latency of man in subjugat
ing to his Use and service tho ele
ments of the physical world.
A roKrt comes from Lcadville of
the discovery of an arrow-head,
made of tempered copsr, and of a
number of human bones, in the
ltocky Point mines, near Oilman,
Colo. The relies were disclosed It K
feet below the surface of the earth,
imbedded in a vein of silver-bearing
ore. More than flt.'U worth of ore
clung to the Injuea when thuy were
removed from tho mine. Here is a
piiulu fur thu geologists,
Uorinc for I'lre.
A curious work is that which we
read in the daily patters the gov
ernment geological survey has
undertaken it is digging the deep
est hole in the ground which has
ever been attempted by man. This
extraordinary aK!iture is located
in the neighl orhood of Wheeling,
V. Va. It is eight inches in dia
meter and has now reached a depth
of 1,1'' feet, or nearly one mile.
No dilliculties in Wiring have yet
Wen encountered, and the work
will W continued so long as human
skill can devise means of going
deeper. Interesting geological dis- !
coveries will doubtless be made, i
but the principal object of the sur- j
vcy is, it Hssilile, to reach a depth
that will throw some light on the
question of the proximity of interior
lircs to the surface of the earth.
Whatever may W the final results,
the progress of their work thus far
is rather reassuring. If no more
signs of lire can be discovered at
the depth of a mile, we should be
w illiug to take the chances against
an early terrestrial combustion.
Neither Kiili Nor a Dear Story.
An adventure was related over a
soldiers' camplire at San Carlos,
Tex., that is worth preserving The
captain said that he had Wen fish
ing in one of the smaller canyons
near Fort Apache shortly before,
and hooked an immense trout. He
played him up ami down stream,
became intensely excited, and was
just aWiut to land him when ho
herd a fierce growl, and, looking up,
perceived a tremendous bear on the
opjkisite side of the narrow creek.
The captain was not anxious to lose
his life, and the bear was making
for him. Neither did he care to
lose the tish. So he quickly trans
ferred the Hsh sile to his left hand,
drew his revolver with his right,
killed the bear, and then landed the
trout.
There was a lull at the end of
this story. The hearers waitetl to
lit ar what the general would saw
Pretfv siHin he asked: "What did
you do with the bear, captain?"
"(lave him to some liulians," was
the reply. "And the fish?" con
tinued the general. "He was such
a line one that 1 put him back in
the creek. I don t believe in sHiil
ing the cK;rt of future generations."
There was another lull. Presently
the general asked: "Do vou call
that a 'bear story' or a 'lisli story,'
captain?" The captain replied: "1
don't call it either." Then again
came the general to the charge:
"Couldn't you fix that story up so
that you could be killing a rattle
snake with one of your feet at the
same time?" The captain ro ami
walked away. Oalveoton News.
Thero is no happiness in the world
equal to that of blessing others.
Not oulv by giving money to the
needy, fielp to the sick, food to the
hungry, is this blessing eoniosed;
we gain it as we give it, by sympa
thy, by alfection, by seeing that
which is besl in our friends, and
shutting our eyes to that which is
worst, by taking joy in their gosl
things even when our own ortioii
is scant and poor.
Kansas is having a hard time.
Last week the southeastern Kirtion
of the state was visited by a com
bination of cloud-burst, cyclone and
tornado that destroyed standing
ciops, in many cases just ready for
the rciqier, and swept away bridges
and buildings, involving an estimate
loss of half a million dollars. Kan
sas is a good country to stay away
from.
Very few iersons have ever heard
ofOngadig (iigailab, lb' lives in
Manchester, Kngland. lie was a
bank clerk, and Wire the name of
John Smith. Another John Smith,
also a bank clerk, was charged with
einbejtlouient, ami this so annoyed
John Smith of Manchester that he
changed his name to Oagadig Oig
adab, ami he has never been con
founded with a double.
An attempt to enforce tho Sunday
closing law in Tacoma and Sxkano
has caused the saloon keeiersto de
clare that if they cant work on Sun
day and earn money, that clergy
men, barbers, milkmen, editors, base
ball players, street car drivers and
others who earn money on Sunday
must also quit work on tho first
day of tho week.
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A young man has been found in
San Francisco who is engaged toliU
girls. Ho has made the engage
ment business pay; instead of del
uging his darlings with (lowers and
IkjiiWiiis he borrowed money and
jewelry from ouch and lived luxuri
ously. Still he was a busy man
tttiifworVing hard.
STONCD TO DEATH.
Sutiltliftrf Juttlrc lrtml Out In Itir llllt
llrl MMlinrr In . reUanlitAM.
"An eye (or an eye ntu a tooth
(or a Uxitli " The (tlottltn nt the olil
law Mll IhiIiN pm in Af'linnl .tnn.
h.-iv the MieltU'M 'IVIcgrnpli. tu fi't,
tin' iiimiiioo, riiktoiiii unit Mirpminliupi
u( the Aftfhniin of toilny i.iitfht In- (in
tntjivd in the i,-eH nf the uM testa
ment n fnithfult) n tin- life of the U
mettle. The Afghans sir Mehnuuiie
ilnnv It tu true, tint their rellirlon In
I.I I,.,.. ll.... ....I I
life l n simple Hint mtrlirvhiil as n hen
the tftvut InWiftvtT NI""mi ritlel tin- lies
tinies of ttie eoh' of Nrnel.
Kor lu AftfhunUtHn of t.wl.iy oxen
trenil out tho com uiul plow tho Ileal;
ami the plow Itwlf Is ix coutitornrt of
the Mowiit'itl limtniluont. Corn N
ground In liniiil-mllli nml n t,'oitO;lu
srvo n "wstor-lsittte." MmiselioM
nml farming utonsils have ehnngiM
iHilhlitif ilurliitf tho evnturii'H that have
slnoe tho Israelites trwnxl the
Ui-sort ly tho lttil sen In short, you
couUl llml n sorlosof "llilonu vtvimts"
1 i tho Mirroumtintfs of Afghanistan of
lo-!y to till up ohuptor ly ihiipW-r tho
M-onos ilopU-to.t tu tho old tostumont. It
Is stvlil that tho Aflunis are ono of tho
lost trils-s, nml oortninlv so for as u
it Kkel itilhoreneo to Ismolitish Motions
I . oiiicoriitHl thoj mliflit ls.
There is no inistithiiitf tho Mosulm!
Ihirullol an far us tho sooiul customs
present thoinsohos; hut I wan nslon
Wheil ono evening, ilui Ini,' tho Itumtiau
senro, wImmi 1 vitthe Aftfhun fron
tier, to soe tho vory shnllltuiloof tho ohl
law punlshmont of stoning to ilouth put
In prnelU'O.
A yollliiK moli of ..iplo eiono rushing
from ttll iliroi tlons tonanl tho ouUlilrts
of the vitiligo f I'tioUtu, picking up
plooos of stone hy tho way anil piling
thorn In little 1ioiih. by their fool. I
thought at tho timo thoy wore going to
h:io a pitehnl Imttlo, with stono an
intssltos. Hut shortly n iiinu oamo run
ning forwnrtl, followoil hy a spitting,
hooting mob, shouting' "Sag! .Hug!"
(ilog! ilog'i Tho unfortunate runaway
oviilontly know his fiito, for his long,
earnest apsal to lloavon as ho sloppoil
short i ml throw his arms up was hut
tho proliiulnury to his (onrful (lilt- his
llual appeal for uioroy on bin soul, for
from that howling inoh ho woll know
ho nooil oxpoot noiio
Tho man hint svimvly time to finish
his iuviH-atioti, when from utl illrcellons
a litoral shower of stones foil on him.
I "or n moment he swayed to nml fro
lunler tho onslaught. S.sm tho torrtblo
shower hiul batt.-rod him Into a jellied,
bhssl-ls-sputtori'd mass, his vory clothes
show iug grout rout through wliteh the
lihssl found cnl ami spurted freely.
Ho wae red for a moment with his chin
taihhing his ihest, olid then, after
doubling up nt the kue.w nml middle,
foil in n heap. dead.
Mill the how ling mob continued their
terrible fusillade of stono until around
the already lifeless lsIy a mint wbh
formed, completely entering In the
e irpse And then the nod, clipvd
their hands crowed, and wont their
way. "That dog ts done for," said
thoy. Done fori Yen, it wn a terrible
doing: for there under the lieup
stones the man's nerves and musolc-i
still vibrated in their posl-deulh
struggle, cousliig tho stono henp to rise
uml fall as If in lalsir with a thing of
life; rose ll lid fell 111 their horrible
paitiirititui (or a (ow moinciits until the
t .. it hing of nerve lllld nucele co;u-d.
onl all was still. "I oiiMimmatiimest."
1 he murderer of Afghanistan has
breathed his Inst and his jaeel in writ
ten iirotllid tho t.niilsxtoiie In those bhssl
m.irW . ihut liespatlor tho ground uUml
his grave e.iiru.
SIMULATED VIHTUE.
1 1
Value nf 1 1 ) luierUy m m Snrl.il
l.le, .tt.ir.
When atrabilnrioiis llaliilot, ill hi
choleric Interview with his mother i.i
the tatiluet, imprudently advised tier
, ,.umc a vlflm- It ou U411' II or uul,"
he unwittingly Uld dn a g-uerul
rule of hl-fh value to individuals and tin
community , say s John MeKlioy in the
Popular Seli'iuv .Monthly.
.simulation of virtue, though f.tr In
ferior to the re.vl article. Is -.1111 Ui.
uet ls".t thiief t i it, just us v. Into, .i -li
t i nigh much inferior to marble, in y ,
greatly sus'rior to dirty naUednesv
It is very de dratih-that ull men mid
all women should sUnd togi-tln r on
the very highest plane nt gsxiios: hut
the t.irgest portion of tin i.i do not
pr I'mbly never will. It I, unci ..n.i
ble to s'et that the mass of hum .oily
will Is' it dily all rued o i t most ad
vaiiei'il i.tundards of morality, c .p .'Id
ly when llaiso staudarils.tro pushe.l (or
ward us rapidly astlicy have U'.'ii In the
more ruin-nt centuries. IHhlcs Is u cuii
staiitly developing seioiioo. What
u high grade of morality in the eigh
teenth century would Ik a very ordi
nary one today; Just ns the mall who.
in our colonial times, would have ls-uii
regarded as uoat nnd cleunly in his per
son, would m'oiii a tfi "I dent of a sloven
t.-diy. Thon.ns now, men ami women
would assume to ! iniu'li cl.-unor. in r
nlly and lihysieally, than they re. illy
were, anil by sheer force of s-rslst.'iiec
and h.ibil became really i leaner than
theyntllrst protended to Is-. IVrs-ms
with the hump of approbativeiiess hih
ly dt veos'd coiii.tuntly forge to the
front on linos whioh they think will
win them the esteem of their fallows,
ami the hitter follow with unciu.il
steps, llrsl showing oulwanl resp-cl ami
conformity to U-lter ideas uml practices,
uml thou making them more oi loss of
renlitleu ill their lives.
Tin. nuinls-r of employes on all the
railroads of tho country utmiiints to
seven hundred thousand, There arc
fifteen bundled uml eighteen diKci-clll
railroad for) si rat lulls, uml the t .tul
mileage of these mllruwl Is one hun
dred and ll(ty-U thuusnwl four liuu
Jrml mlleg.
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
Iris suld that tho oW.s'fudron (i
l.xithifK't has osenpod from ganlcns In
Nova S-olla, and Is sireading Itself by
Its seeds over the moist ns'ks In the
wiHstlauds there.
AOi'iMVN chemist has succeeded In
pnsluciiigartltlcittUillt.w htch husall tho
iiialdles of the uaturnl article except
strength, wherein it is dollclcut, Isdng
only two thlrils ns strong
M. M WY. hns siiivcodcil in photo
graphing the movements of nil alitmnt
under wider. A rny tins Ikh-ii taken in
prolile while waving tho edges of Its
Hut Issly, and the cuiioiis uiislo of pn
grcsMoit of n coiiiatula has Is'cli taken.
UiMsiy MiiLilio Is n sunshine killer.
Tho Itoynt Itot.iulc MK'loty has kiqit a
direful leotird of the bright sunshine
t'lot fell on tho gardens In ltcgonl's
p,irk List year, t lilt of a p.sihhi I.IU
hours the 'Is-auUnis eje of lloavon"
t.as vl .ihle during l.eJ.
TllK cpe lithm wilt out hy the Vi
enna ne.uleiiiy of selcnoe to explure the
Mediterranean found it grontest depth
to U- iun thing over two ami a ipiarlor
miles, between Molla iiinl Corlgo. tin
the African coast, where tho wnter Is
clearer, white mot.il plates could Is'
seen nt a depth of one hundred nml
forty-four foot. Sonsltiio plates were
netol iisui by the light at a depth of
over sKteou hundred feet.
Tin: rabbit excels nil other aiitmsils
in enduring cold. A pro(esor In tho
Trench aculoiuy of sciences arrived at
this conclusion after a series of esTl-
menu, lie put a rabbit In a block of
lee, covered the aperture w Ith n piece I
of the same article nnd froo it fast.
The animal sisuit tho night in his ctsd
apartment, and tho next morning, when
r. loosed, went alsnil as If nothing
strange or unusual had occurred.
ODD TIES NOTED AUIIOAD.
A I n in lMiiiburgh expiirloncod n
lurch in her oarilago, and drove her
hatpin into her head with fatal coiiso
ipicnccs. Till.UI. Is a small, unobtrusive society
in I. in Ion known as the M A II. Y. S ,
otherwise the Metropolitan Association
(or lii friending Young Servants.
Two moiii: young lions have Ikumi
liorii in the Itcrlln .o dogical gardoits.
As the mother rofuvs to nurso them
they are suckled by a big Newfound
land. In' rranco the government still levies
a tat on ihsirs and windows. To tho
peasant in his small hut this tax
amounts to a little more than three
francs n your, but lu the towns It rises
to seventeen fruiios nnnuully for ouch
family.
In t'oroa every unmnrrlod ulnn Is con
sidered a liy, though ho should live to
! n hundred. No mailer w hat his age,
ho follow., lu sisitioii the youngest of
hi- married moil, despite the fact (s-r
ap . of having llicll years enough to In
.heir father.
Tilt'Hiv I- a curlosltv in an llugllsh
ttori.hoiiso in a girl who sieuUs a l.ni
.rua v which no one can understand
die has I wen nildn-. 4il in nearly rv
doa-n diKcreiit tongues, hut without
evincing any liitclllgenco as to thu
meaning of words.
An olllcial weekly in licriiiauy enleii
tales how an invalid worUlngmuii can
live for three hundrcil days In the year
from the seventy III e dollars allow oil
him bv the ill. 1 Age and Invalid lusiir
iiliee I'iiiiiI. I'lrst hn-akfast, Sll'JSan
niiar). M-cond breakfa .1, 87 . 'si, dinner,
SIH 7.1; aftoriUKin eollee. S7..VI; snpisT,
!I5; rent, CM il; clothluif. l.7a.
REUIAULE INFORMATION.
A ciui.l. travels one humlied miles n
day.
A S4'ii:.xrisr s,iv that tho average
term of hiiiniiii life has Increased lu the
Inst fifty youni from thirly-foiir to forty
two yours.
Till in: nre twenty-it iiiomin-hies
mid twenty-live ropuiiltcs in tho eivll
led world to-day; sixteen republics are
In South America.
Till' Navajo Indians stretch a lariat
of liorschair nlsait their tents at night,
ll Is uu elTectiio harrier for keeping out
snakes, tarantulas and coiilii-ilc.
Ir Is a mnlter of lecord that I'J.VJO
.lol'-urs were coined in lut, yet only
eight evniliplcs are known to exist,
and those Hint are In gsl coiidillnn nrc
worth i I, uuo each.
Till' comparative m-ciirrciioe of Hie
small or lowercase" letters in Knglish
ll. tioii or hi .1 iry.is us follow), , I. j.
m, i, . :i, b, v. 7. g. p. w, y, lu; c. f. u,
ui. i-J. d, I, ao; h. r. :to. a, I. n, o, s. iu
t, 'i. e, UU; total. Ml Those IHtiiw
Milt l ehnngeii Utile in newspu.
work
A Wvomiho mail has setth il the quo'
tioliiif how tho prairie dogs obtain the
water ihey drink lie say:. I hey dig
their wells, each village having om
w ith a concej.led ois-iiuig He says hi
know , of sovorul of I lie i' wells from
VI to Jihi feel deep, each having a eir
eular stall way Icuding dolwi o the
water.
VHEN CROWNED HEADS WED.
ijl I'.I N Vn-lolil v was married before
she had reached her twenty llrst yeui
At'.. I lilt's cins'inr was weihleil to
CIIalH-th of llaviirialn his twenty llflh
year
Till' Prince of Wales wuh not quite
twenty-two when ho esiuisl l'rlnces
AlcsiilHlru.
'I III. presi'lit king and queen of the
ISolgiHin. i.t the time of tlmlr weiUliiig
wcrei ighteoii ulldwvelltiH-n re'elli-
y
h'lNd i-uiii.nr, of Italy, wu twenty
lite at the tiinu "f his marriage to .Mar
guerite of fcuvoy, then a girl of set en
toon. Kui'ijmoii Wu.i.uti of tiurmniiy win.
united l ' Auguuta VWturta, of tMlhts
wlK-llolstelii-AilgMtenlHirg, At the atre
uf twelitv two.
GENUINE GERMAN JOKES.
.ll'STli l.tiil.i:. "What do I see? You
a toeetarlnn, nnd eating n hare!" "Only
out of rvteiigo for tho tine cnhlmges ho
Inn deprived me of "
A vi t ri:i it II I sits'o. "You miss con
tinually It Is rcnlly of no etjiiw-iiioiiis-,
you see. The hares know well
enough that I mean to hit them."
A Ui oiiiui.Mi.tTioN. "Whntl you
think the hs-k of this hag Is no gissl?
My dear iiuulaiu, t assure you that
rather than try to open It nny thief
would carry olf tho bug."
A I.tiiii; Mist Mii.iisr.tMUMi "You
exsH-t mo to oat such a Is-ofsteak ns
this! I hie ought to hnto n hog's stom
ach"' Wailet (calliiig to the kltehcnl
"A litsjr s stomach for Mr. Mayer!"
Anrni IHsM.il. "And now, IMwurd.
put on your dressing-gown and your
slippers, sit down in lids big ariu elialr.
and have a real comfortable smoke' '
"U hat, you are going to lot mo smoke
In the parlor? 1 must run over to the
eluli and let tho follows know what an
angel 1 have for a wife, tjissl-hv. dear
est''' l'llogondo lllaltcr.
NATURAL HISTORY SUUJECTS.
A i tnv niilunillst has ilcmotistrntoil
that moles uro not entirely eurnltorous
by start ing ono until 11 ale oatmeal, on
which diet it afterward subsisted.
Onsil not isiisrs toll us that when
feeding Iho stride of the ostrich Is from
twenty to twenty-two inches; when
walking but not feeding, twenty -six
Inches, ami when tcrrillcd, from eleton
and one-half to fouiteen feet, or at the
rate of alsiul twenty-live miles an hour
Tur huiiis of cuuiclsaiv mole lumps
of fat. and not provided for lu the
framework of the skeleton. hen the
anna il I.i ifissl condition the humps
are full and plump, du a hm r journey
where f.ssl U seuico tho hump nrc on
tlii-lv ub.orbed, the skin eovcrilig thoni
hanging over the Hank like nn empty
ls(X.
ii.m.'i llrst Impression on seeing an
ostrich I. thai It nods another prop un
der him The feeling Is heightened
w hen he gis'i, to w alk, and he himself
seems conscious thai his center of grav
ity Is n long way nlmvo ground, for he
gis-s teetering along a though exercis
ing great care to keep his logs well mi
ller him
FORTUNES IN ODD PLACES.
As old scissors grinder who died at
liosheti. lud., the other day was found
to Is' worth S'Jl.issi. though ho was sup
posed to Is- ssir ami needy
V.tiu (itsMt., a native of Jerusalem,
wns arrested at Tulare, t'ol , and sen
toncod to twenty days lu Jail for Is'g
glllg. du searching him 61..MJO was
found about him, with a number of let
ters from prominent vonilo recommend
iug him to the charitable
llvi.n a century ago a party of Span
iards hid a bnr of gold lu tho rlvei
lilutTs near Ihs'hcport, Mo , nml despite
the elTorts of wealth seekers the treas
ure remained unfouiid until the other
day. when a man with maps and charts
made his aps-ar.ou-e nml after a short
sonreh discovered the treasure.
A sl. isii'ltMi mattress which for
t o months had Imoii lu s.ssesslou of
Us purchaser, n rosnleut of Mcbiiiics,
.' i' . c.iued Idm some uneasiness tho
other night Ih-c.iii.o of a hard lump
t. nidi hud worked tow ard Ihe surface
lie Investigated, and found that the
lump wie. a wad of greenback amount
ing to Sl.nl I.
RESPECTING RAILROADS.
lit I. lit year 7!l,lUO,ilKJ railroad ties
are used up.
Tumi: are l.la.'i.lniu freight cars In tho
I'nilod .stales.
Tin: Pennsylvania railroad system
employs 7,1171 engineer.
lll'llMiS' riiilwnvs now iiififreiilto 1H.-
IVSI liiiles, nnd employ I 'J.iVJII hn-oiuo-j
tiles, 'Jil.OOs passenger curs, rgHt.SAI
freight curs iiiid ais.iKM oillcluls uiul i
other employes III syu there wole
u.uss accidents of all kinds.
I 'nil n given number of sople who
eaii use railroads, Austria provides"
more trains than India, (icrmuiiy tunic
than Austria, Ciiglaud more than tier
many, uml the I'nited .States more
than Kngland. Kach concession to the
public convenience in this matter in ,
voltes a loss which must Im paid for
Munowhere.
A s.t.s Pii.tKcnco inuii proci to
three sisters lu turn, hut thoy nil re
jeeted him. lie got even hy marrying
their mother, n widow.
A.s InilintinpilU mini swore lu court
the other day that he did lint know In-,
wife's llrst name, though thoy have
lived happily together fur thlrtcin
years.
A ijt'i:i:ilt.V matched pair huvc just
Is'cu married iu Wolistcr township, lu
'Iho griHiui weighs exactly four bun
died ami eight siuuds The bride is a
fcnthei weight of only eighty hvi
siiuds
Anii.tlitvt llt'iiniss, of M illicit'. I iol .
applied to '.ho township trustees for
money with which to purchase a license
that his eighteen-year-old sou might
marry The trustees refused and the
wedding 'vns imlclliiltcly swlpouc.l
TRADE YARNS,
A Pllll..tii:i.l'lll.t tailor makes this
distinction "Pants. $1 Ml, trousers, is "
A liiwsil.l t N furniture llrm ndver
Used "Any chamls-r suite In our entire
establishment for one cent more than it
eitsts ns To duy only "
-i a i '.iiincoliciil town a hitter war is
Is'litg v. aged among the clothing deal
ers. tine dealer started It by oKering a
hut with every suit, a cuiiH!illor saw
hll.i one U'tUir ami n I To re. I two huts,
owl a third, nut to he lieateii, otters a
tat ami n siilrt, with collar, eutr ami
lie.
PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLORS.
A I'rriirhlimil SiikkioK n Mliipla 1'rixrMI
Tlir lrfltrt tt'mtilrr.
The fixing lu the camera of the nat
ural colors of n picture has alw ays lioen
tho philosopher's stone of the photog
rapher, and ever and anon the state
ment Is glten out that this iiiuuh-ile-sired
goal has Is'en attained, to Im
quickly follow ed hy a description which
gis-s to show how (ur (mm Its promise
the actual result of the supposed discov
ery really Is. ,M. l.ippiiiuun has, how
ever, now put Is-fore the Trench Acad
emy of Sciences a plan which, If the
ntatemonts made concerning It nre sub
stantiated, will constitute a distinct
stop toward the solution of tho problem
of photographing objects In their nat
ural color.
Tho suggested process Is very simple,
nnd Involves the use of the oidluary re
ngonts. Tho sensitive tllm, during ex
ss,urc, Is limited on tho surface of mer
cury. Siipsisc, for Instance, a my of
blue light strike., the sensitive film, It
w ill puss through and, lielng rellcoted
from the surface of the Mercury Isdiliid,
will pass out through the 111 c i i agu'.i In
terfering on its way tv 1th Iho incident
ray. When the two rays are In the
sumo phase their olTeots will Im addi
tive, uml the sensitive matter lu thu
llliu will bo strim fly acted on. At a
small distance farther on the two ntyu
will iicutraliie each other so that the
111 in Is there totally unacted oil. Ill thli
way the thickness of tho 11 1 tit Is divided
up into layers, on w hich the light luei
acted, half u w live-length apart, and
hence ti hen lived and dried It may I.!
considered as consisting of n number of
thin plates of half the tvnvilougth of
blue light In thickness, and will, there
fore, give rise to a blue color when whii
by rcllootoil light. Just an the thlckuotjfl
of a soap bubble gives rise to the colors
seen lit it.
Owing to the (act lluit the thickness
of nn ordinary lllm Is many times the
w live-length of a ray of light the ootorrf
obtained nre said to be remarkably bril
liant. They are, moreover, perfectly
llxcd, ami tho prints have been exposed
lith to a siwcrfnl electric nre light
and to bright ilaylllit without any
signs of ftiding It in als found that If
the prints aie viewed bv transmitted lu
place of reilectcd light each color Is re
placed by Its e,i::r dement iry omt
FREAK ROOMS.
"Yes," Mild a decorator to n rsqsirtor
of the Philadelphia I pholsterer. "I
have a holy horror of (real; room.
There ts no satisfaction l;i decorating
n risiui to suit it passiu.f fancy, for nliM
times out of ten il i, msiii wearied of
nml everything hus t i coined. mil nml
out again. The reason why I he 'silicon
Anno,' the '.'.dam' or 'UenalsHii.ioe,' f r
any other ieoo;'tiled k-r l t of design hi
still in vogue, is Is'ciiiim' tho,' M'liisilsiiie
pcris'tiiatotl by sound principles of U'nil
ly uml g.ssl ta-t on never got tired
of it draw lug-room in thccaily 1'rouch
M'hisils of two hundred or more veals
ago Hut hern's i. man comes In to me
and wauls a "s.i ting-risim.' lie has
his own ideas, nnd I simply Ull them
out for blm. unit ton l- one lie s tired
of It In n month, lie has a baby nllliru
I ir suhpended hy t.iil and jaw from Iho
mantle, ami u .lupuiicso doll astraddle
lis back, holding a pair of rlhlsui relui,
which tie round the reptile's nisso.
The colling is dnqs'il with a huge lisle
net, ours lire used III place of curtain
iloi, nnd an Indian cuius' Is sussmd
cil from two corners uml lilted up for
a hunk. Tho tvissl work Is picked out
ill Indian roil, and fossils uro scattered
around on every thing, like cotton snow
on n Christinas tree. That mull will
weary of it nil ns s.hiii us the silk rib
bons uro dirty ami the crocodiles get
dust covered.
"1 have discovered olio thing," eon
tlutiiHl tho decorator, "and that Is that
there is more nml more liulcs'iidoiico
felt People that want their house fur
nished nowadays know what they
wind, mid don't require us much as
sistance as they did. This reason Is
hugely due to the fact 1 1 lot poophi
who call ulforil handsome Interiors tnhe
the art journals, unit their taste Is
cultivated up to u high standard, while
the men vv ho sell the giush. don't, us u
rule, do a great deal of leading, and
the don't know n. mill h us their cus
tomers "
HOOD'S
sW
The Importance o( purtfrlnc Ui" Wood caa
not to urrirttliiutril, (ur without puio WiksI
yuu cannot tulor good health.
At tlilt iramn nrarlr ctnjr ono nrrdi a
coo.1 iiirillcliia lu purtfjr, vltallic, and cuiicli
tho tlisnl, ami tva aik you to try llooil'a
Dnrlillnr Hariaparllla. Itilrrtititticut
rCCUIIctr Wlj Ijuiij, Up Uio ijritciii,
ciratm an appetite, and tonca the dlcnKlon,
wlille It rradlcatrt dltcaie. The peculiar
combination, proportion, and prvparatlou
of the vegetable rrmrdlca uicd gliro to
llood'i Hanaparllla pccul-ltclf
Ur ruratlm jsoneri. No 1 llooll
other medicine liai luch a record of wonderful
curet. If you hare made up jruur oilud to
1 luf llood'a fjariaparllla do not he Induced to
i take aujr oUier Imtead. It li a I'ccullu
1 Ucdtclne, and li wortlif your coundiuce,
llood'i Hariaparllla li told tjf all drugjUti.
J l'rcparud ty C. t. Hood ti Co., Lowell, Maaa.
100 Dosoa Ono Dollar '
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