Pittston Gazette

              "DC" Oldest Aewsoaoer in the Wvommg Valley. PITTSTO PA. NUARY 31, 1890. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. metals to the sun's light. These they fashioned after the graven image of the cent pieces, but of many sizes and values, each hnving upon its surface in relief a rampant banana and he-goat charging the rising sun; these symbols signifying, doubtless, that the metals in this form, like the banana, were liable to throw people at times, and, like the goat, were always to t e considered when making a charge. Out of these bits of metal swarmed plans, purposes, schemes and moral and physical distempers, like mosquitoes from the dew-drops in a Florida swamp; and instead of peace and dreams, as of old,, the secret but supreme idea, the invisible and moving soul of the whole, grew to be how they might the most easily and safely live off each other; they were beginning to be civilized.that of Wall street on a busy day. So he lost that remark. From street and square, from *»Cn and glen Of this vast world beyond my door 1 hear the tread of marching men. The patient armies of the poor. Heirs of Time. but a little thing, a trine, a single copper. 0 King, let my humble prayer find favor with thy ears." ITINERARY OF BILL NYE. IN THE HOLY LAND. ot the skull.a rough outline sketch he made of it resembles the outline of a skull as one egg does another. Standing on the hill one is exposed to the view of all passers by. "Look yonder," said Dr. Talmage, pointing to some huge rocks that seemed' as if they had been torn asunder by an earthquake,"there are the seams in t he very rocks that were rent at the crucifixion, and there is the very road along which the people passed 'wagging their heads.'" Nearly all the archffiologists in Jerusalem agree with him in opinion as to the exact place of the crucifiction. Louis Klops&L uro; the frieze and architrave above tnem are Doric. As these ornaments are Creek in their design, it is certain that the tomb of Absalom, as a whole, is not of the antiquity claimed for it, but possibly a part of it may be. Accounting for the large amount of rubbish about the base of this monument is the fact, as I was informed, that the faithful Israelite does not pass it without throwing at it a stone to indicate his contempt for David's disobeiient and wayward son. LITERARY GLEANINGS. "But oh, sir,",I exclaimed to the fireman, who loves a beautiful girl named Annie, "can you not tell me something brave and beautiful that you have done, something that I can make a dear little story of and print, something that will bring tears to eyes unused to weep, something that I can put in the holiday number of a nice paper with pictures in it? Did you never save any one?" Chablotte M. Yonge is said to be writing her one hundred and first book. • Mrs. Jefeebson Davis is busily engaged, at- Beauvoir, upon the life of her, late husband and will soon have It completed.And the King cried in contempt: '"Tis but a little thing," (ho didn't know the multiplication table, you see) "thus it is decreed!" Then the prisoner went oheerfully forth, and, alive and well, attended his own funeral; the burying being attended by several other healthy people, who saw that the sack which he went to the bottom in had a rock in it of sufficient size to keep him there, "thus he passed away, a sad warning to those who are tomptod to bite off more than they can chew! GREAT GOBS OF SENTIMENT ON THE Wlt-D AND WOOLY WEST. Dr.Talmage and Party Near the Shores of Beautiful Galilee. The halo of the city's lamps Hangs, a vast torchlight. In the air; I watch it through the evening damps; The matters of the world are there. Th« Upper Mississippi—Divergent KUito- THE SCENE OF THE CRUCIFIXION. It is said that R. D. Blackmore, the' author of Lorna Doone, is better known at his home in Teddington as a market gardener than as a writer. , Not ermine-clad or olothed in statd, Their title-deeds not yet made plain; But waking early, toiling late. The heirs of all the earth remain. rial Writing—Flamboyant Ear of a Penn- sylvania Conductor—Tales Told in a Lo- comotive Cab—Sorrow, of a Scotchman. "Yes," he said, as he mopped his brow with a fireman's handkerchief. "I used to know a gentle old cuss here on our run who did odd jobs and worked faithfully. He had a sweet little flaxen haired child. Can you use that?" A Vi«it to Sacr®a Ground—Where Christ Preached Bis Sermon on the Mount—The Borne day. by laws as fixed and fair As guide the planets In their sweep, The children of each outcast heir Hie harvest-fruits of time shall reap. [Copyright, 1890, by Edgar W. Nye.] Interior of Jerusalem—No Wells, No The stones thus thrown have made a ragged edged opening in the tomb of about fifteen incites in diameter and about eight feet from the ground. I was further informed that it is necessary to clear the monument once a year of the accumulation of stones, which, often accompanied with curses, are hurled at the supposed tomb of King David's handsome son. H»e rabbis command: "If any one in Jerusalem has a disobedient child, he ahall take him out to the Valley of Jehosaphat, to Absalom's monument, and force him, by words or Cfcripea, to hurl stones at it, and to curse Aw American company have given two French printers an order for a panorama of Stanley's two journeys through Africa. It is intended for the World's Pair of 1893. Mabsiial MacMahon, of France, it is understood, has completed his "Memoirs," but they are to be printed for private circulation only, and only a ffew copies in all will be issued. Couirr Tolstoi, yielding to the solicitation of his friends, has resumed his j literary work. He is now working on a novel to be called "La Sonate de Kreutzer." It is a family romance and will be ijary ldi%'. Mb. Gladstone's literary activity shows no signs of abatement* Six, magazine articles are shortly expected from the pen of the aged Liberal leader. One of these is a critical review of Lord Tennyson's new poem. Charles J. Bellamy, a brother of Edward Bellamy, the author of "Looking Backward," has written a story called "An Experiment in Marriage." He haa already published a novel entitled "The Breton Mills." i In the Ozone Country, ) H thk Hands of a Porter Who Brushes y Himself at My Expense. ) Chimneys, aad No Vehicles. *n»e peasant brain shall yet be wise, The untamed pulse grow calm and still; The bliad shall see, the lowly rise, And work in peace Time's wondrous will. But his example failed to frighten the copper cent. Each year it took a larger mouthful, each year it bit farther and deeper into the public pie, until even when the next King put on the orown it began to look voluptuous; but, unfortunately, the laws of this people, like the laws of the Mede3 and Persians, were irrevocable, so it very calmly proceeded to swallow the kingdom.We are now at the head of navigation in the upper Mississippi country, which even in winter is most beautiful. I hope next summer to take a boat at Buffalo, and go the length of the lakes to Duluth, thence down the railroad—I leave the name blank till I can get a [Copyright, 1880, by Louis Klopach, New York.] South of Tibkrias, Dec. 16.—Our tente are pitched south of Tiberias, midway between it and the famous hot sulphur baths, once enjoyed exclusively by royalty and nobility, but now the Mecca to which afflicted Jews and Gentiles, from near and from afar, make their way to seek health in their malodorous waters. The baths are situated on the banks of the beautiful Lake Galilee. We are enjoying truly delightful weather. The temperature is about 75 degs. Fahrenheit in the shade; balmy breezes temper the warmth of the sun. Horses and donkeys, some standing, others lying down, are resting comfortably after days of bard toil, and our various attendants are engaged in an apparently interesting conversation in Arabic. Along the beach natives, weari ing picturesque costumes, are strolling in ceaseless procession. An occasional caravan of stately camels gives increased variety to the scene. In the saloon tent one of the waiters is setting the table tor luncheon, singing or rather groaning in oriental style, which, Dr. Talmage says, always reminds him of a protracted attack of nausea. South of Ttbkihas, Dec. 16.—I resume at a later hour of the day my account of our first day of sight seeing In the Holy City. "Yes." "Well, he used to come down town evenings and we would meet at 'The Busy Bee' to vigit and play a game of •Old Sledge.' We never played for the drinks, but we would often, when it was time to go home, offer to shake each other for the drinks. I do not drink now, even beer." Some day, without a trumpet's call. This new* will o'er the World be blown; " This herltaMcome back to all! The myriaainonarchs take their ownt" —T. W. Blgginson, in the Nationalist All this time the angel (he was a good angel, perhaps, before he was born, but wasn't any more; that is, not disagreeably so) was, to put it delicately, in the finger-bowl with both feet. On or about the first day of January each year he - struck a balance in order to ascertain how hard he had struck the natives during the season, and asked himself the question: "la amy of it getting away?" , He meant the island. He always felt his spleen pierced by a large, sharp-* pointed pang when he found that there were still parts of the kingdom which he did not own, and he gathered himself with an Intense gather for the gathering in of the balance of the clime. After leaving Golgotha we went to the tomb of Jesus, which would be more exactly described as that of Joseph of Anmathea, for he was its owner atul gave its use for the burial of the Saviour. It is situated in a garden near by «ni almost at the foot of Golgotha. Thi* tomb was excavated about three year# ago. Immediately it was recognized, by AN ISLAND LOST. ¥ I* 7rte^"~ A Story That Is Both Tragic and For a long time it was little noticed, then for a cycle 01 two it was considered a great boon and the sunken angel a martyr. Then after a few more cycles bad uncycled it was found that there was no money to do business with in the kingdom outside the angel's fund. Then it foreclosed mortgages on every thing in the finger-bowl, and presently foreclosed on the finger-bowl itself. Then It swallowed the king's palace, then his crown, his boiled shirts, his ermine and Us jewels. (If the reader doubt tho Swallowing capacity of a cent let him double it and its product annually, as in this case, for seventy or eighty years. If he finds the amount about his person when the doubling is done—well, he may sleep with Jay Gould, buy Congress, be a Senator, pay the National debt and amuse himself with many other delightful little tricks of the. kind without a grunt.) "And "what was this shaking for the drintaT *bsak)ui; meanwhile telling him the4ife and fate of that rebellious son." We saw nothing like practical obedience to the injunction quoted when we were there, and returned to our hotel unafflicted with sympathy for either parent or child in such a scene as that described. "Why, nothing at all, only we shook poker dice for the beer, and the one who lost paid for it. See?"' people capable of forming an opinion on the subject, as the real place in which £hey laid Him. It is the only tomb in or near Jerusalem to enter which it la necessary to stoop, and in this respect is unique in its correspondence with the description in the Gospel, found in St John, xx. A Shrewd Yankee's Adventures on on Island of the Sea—An Old Copper Cent and What It Did—An Example of Compound Interest. If vl, "And how old was this flossy haired child you speak of?" "She was then 12 years old. At the time of the accident, however, she was about 18. It was a foggy night. We were late. You will notice that I use good grammar. Put the printer on that, will you, please? Story firemen and engineers always use poor grammar and spell a little queer. They also swear a little and lie. The actual fireman or engineer does not do that unless he is filling up a young person. We generally talk very little to visitors in the cab, for we have to look out for our trains. W» are not here to sit for ottr photographs or tell pleasing prevarications to people wfco get large prices per column for them afterward; but we have a little open stretch of road here, and so I will talk between work, as you seem to be a plain man, barring the high hat, which hat no business on a locomotive." Lotus Klopsch. a certa ■ sleepy sea, wD ■ purrs and ■ its soft ■•gainst \ n sandy sides o ■ certain f a I land (occasioi I «■ ly rising ste m ily to cuff t tiger-br climo with ery paws) tl once lay Kg island rich in j&T ' ** gends, lizards a Oriental calm. ■ Itwmsnotof groatextent. Adorricl intheoenterand aneighty-n* P Fashion Items. hich But it so chanced that the King, when tie woke up and saw through things. Dr. Talmage accepts the claim made for this cave as the one in which the sacred form was laid at rest He produced his flexibly bound Bible as we viewed the place, and read the Scriptural account of the resurrection. As he commented upon the simple and graphic story he became possessed of an idea which prompted him to speedily remount his donkey and ride back to Jerusalem. His errand, was to purchase, if possible, the piece of ground containing both the scene of the crucifixion and of the burial of Jesus. To this object he devoted the remainder of the afternoon, making considerable effort to accomplish it, but failing to do so. Part of the land is used as a Mohammedan burial ground, and the doctor discovered that no amount of money could persuade the Moslems to part with the land where lie their dead. Had he succeeded in his plan to buy Calvary and the tomb of Jesus, he would have made pver the property, as soon aa acquired, to the Christian church at large. The next morning we set out for Bethlehem, which is tvo hours distant Jerusalem, when the journey is made without deviation. Our guide thought it better to show us Solomon's pools than to pursue a direct course to the place of our Lord's nativity. Accordingly we 'visited these wonderful specimens of skillful engineering, which are even at this day the admiration of the world.* Probably no other specimen of all the architectural creations referred to in the Old Testament is so well preserved as these gigantic pools, which the wisest of the Hebrew monarchs built for the purpose of insuring a bountiful supply of water for his beautiful gardens. No spot on earth affords a better natural site for the erection of such mammoth reservoirs as they are than the pne chosen for them. Nature had provided a way for King Solomon's great architectural enterprise, an enormous basin surrounded by majestic hills sloping gradually and without break or deviation toward the pools. These are now nearly three tb°U9and years old and in their majesty still attest in silent eloquence the great resources and consummate skill of the man who built them, Marie Antoinette fichus are very pretty for slight young girls and thin elderly ones. They are made of neat white or cream silk tissue with a hemstitched hem or fluted ruffle not over an inch and a half wide. They cross over the bust and tie in the back. These cost $10 ready made, and it safe to say that not one of the pretty trifles represented in the cut could be purchased for less $2.50, while the material for the most expensive would not cost over $1.26. Vandyke points in all trimming laoes are entirely the fashion just now, and make very handsome articles. Silk goods are trimmed with it to a great extent, the lace being laid on flat, the straight edge to the edge of the garment and the points lying upwards. rubs ianks he I a r-off ■"al- *^v The Parisian literary world is exercised over a proposed revision of French' orthography. The reform has many strong advocates as well as determined opponents. A society has been formed to pronyte the change, which is designed to simplify the forms of words, j The collapse of "Carmen Sylvia," the Queen of Roumania, is due to overwork.' She has been very ambitious to win fame in literature, and to a certain extent she has accomplished her object. But her constitution was. not strong enough to endure the strain to which she subjected it. Mask Twain has spent about $100,000 in perfecting the Page typesetting machine, and he Is the principal owner of the oompany that will manufacture them. The machine is sixteen feet long, nine feet high in the middle, and, it is claimed, will set, justify and distribute 46,000 ems of type daily. The royal library at Berlin possesses a manuscript which proves that autograph fiends existed as early as four centuries ago. It is Luther's handwriting and oontains, besides his signature, only these six Latin words: meum petisti, tcce manum hobo?'—-"You asked for my autograph'; here it is." nn- .hat reeding " watiroLeas than a quarter of a mile away and bard by tbe ancient wall of Tiberias a number of Russian pilgrims of both sexes are bathing in Lake Galilee. A hundred or so, men, women and children, form a semicircle of deeply interested spectators about these people, who are clothed only in the garb of Eden. Immediately at the rear of our encampment is what is known as the Mount of Beatitudes; and it seems to be pretty well authenticated that there was the place where Christ preached to his disciples and a wondering multitude His Sermon on the Mount. Dr. Talmage is lying on the beach immediately in front of the encampment, with open Bible before him, making notes in a memorandum book, while the brilliantly reflected sunlight causes his eyes to water. He, in oommon with the rest of the party, is tired for once, but he feels that he must take advantage Of this first prolonged stop sinoe he left Jerusalem, to put into shape for his "life of Christ" the notes taken since our landing on tbe sacred soil of Palestine. I write this letter sitting at the door of my tent, which i«, by the way, elaborately deoorated with exquisite "specimens of Egyptian needlework. an loadThen about that time, the alloted period having passed, the fallen angel's legal representatives closed in on the cent and its accumulations, which created a ■cent, indeed. But their claim was found valid and their title without a flaw, so the first son of the fourth generation of the Illustrious cent-planter's family put on the crown, and clothed himself in the boiled shirts and ermine of the King and sat upon the throne. ■* set .a eighty-mile jrane oould easily have done the transportation business of the island. What it lacked in extent, however, it made up mainly in cocoanuts and calm. A clovescented, lemon-goldened, palm-shaded, banana-garlanded poem of beauty, it lay softly snoozing on the dreamy gea. Around it the great deep ever rhythmically sloshed In a sapphire marriage-ring of liquid fire; through all. the green groves bright-plumaged birds forever passed and repassed, leaving behind them seeming waves of color like inverted rainbows, and monkeys hanging by their tails upon the emerald boughs; there, too, the natives passed and repassed, with no plumage to speak off, and leaving behind them a sage-groon ©dor on the Blumberous air. The heart of the city was the King's palace, a structure of but one story, yet covering many acres, and wrought all of Ivory poles and curved bamboo, and stained a thousand fantastic colon with the ruddy juice of the billy-goat and the rainbow blood of flowers. The interior of the palace was a maze of council halls, apartments and passages, wrought of dyed bamboo, with portieres of woven humming-bird wings, carpets of ingrain plaited cat-tails, and warmed with a hundred concubines. The massive doorway, wrought ill of polished ivory and twined with shimmering ostrich - plumes, opened widely to the sunshine's snowy rain, and the wet rain, too, that occasionally jeweled the earth with tadpoles and small but extremely vivid I TOOK OFF MY PLUG HAT. "Well?" reply to the letter I just wrote to the superintendent—to St. Paul and thence down to St. Louis. From St. Louis to Omaha and the mountains. The upper Mississippi has never been adequately described. Though I lived there twenty years, I was always so busy trying to solve great national questions that I did not get a chance. I was endeavoring part of the time to prove that free trade would keep people poor and break up happy homes, and a part of the time I was proving that a high tariff would do the same. One was as easy as the other and the salary the same. "Well, it was a foggy night, and we had to hustle not only to make our regular time but to keep out of the way of late trains. It was right along hare that I looked ahead between scoops of coal and saw a girl going down tbe track with her back this way, and I concluded she was crying a good deal, for she bad her muff up to her eyes all the time, and, of course, that kept her from hearing the train. We whistled, but she didn't hear. I told Harry, and he reversed and all that, but I saw I'd got to get out on the pilot and help, no doubt i to I crept out there in just time to catch this fair young girl by her blonde and beautiful Psyche knot and swing her free of tbe track." The lace is made in all the different kinds, even in wool, and in all the colore that are seen In laces. Some are of mixed threads which have a kind of Persian effect, from the admixture of tinsel with the colored silken threads. Children's collars are very pretty made of the white lace, and the colored makes a very appropriate and inexpensive trimming for their clothes, quite as miituhio for boys as for girls. Some of the new guipures are marvellously intricate in pattern and beautiful in finish. One very fine pattern had a series of fern leaves in fine silk cord, with the stems and veinings in large cord. Many ladies buy these and sew them firmly upon the goods they are making up, and then fill in all the outlines with fine cut jet beads. This makes the trimming almost priceless. Hand embroidery in silk or chenille is very fashionable. The silk for the finer grades of goods like silk and velvet, and the chenille on woolen fabrics, where it shows better. Colors are used and carefully blended. Hand embroidery is done in fine patterns, like forget-me-nots and such blossoms, usually, though I recently saw a dress done in purple passion flowers In their full size. The effect was very fine and the work was artistic.— Olive Harper. "o, KINO!" THE angel ckied. proved to be a bit of a gatherer himself, and bj using freely the latitude which his position -commanded, and the influence and cut rates and passes and rebates that hovered like a blessed halo about his head, he managed to keep the angel from getting the earth entirely Into his pocket. One of the prinoiples which the angel had taught them was that they who had the most to pay with should be charged the least, and often should properly not be asked to pay at all. The King could not exactly see through this principle, but he felt that it was a good thing to have about the house. In fact, he liked all the principles which the angel introduced, all save the principal—the angel; that person was getting rather swollen and voluptuous, as it were. But he felt compelled, in deference to the angel's great acquirements, to make him Chief Keeper of the Treasury Seal and Lord High Comptroller of the Banana Crop, positions which he filled for many, many moons with entire fidelity and 'satisfaction—to himself. * And the King, whose brave but thoughtless ancestor had planted the great and thoughtful cent planter in the sea, was turned out to grass, and the new King caused the ancient but ruddy old copper to be set in the forefront of his crown and in a zone of blazing stones, and under it in diamonds, which seemed evermore to wink, he inscribed the poetic legend: "Lo, I got there!" Alva Milton Keep AT NIAGARA. Going up the road the other day, with the broad and decollette bosom of Lake Pepin glistening in the crisp air and pulsating beneath the bright, declining sun, and Bwiftly darting by the historic Maiden Rock from which the beautiful but plainly educated Indian girl leapt to her death, falling to the cruel rocks below with the low, dull plash of a disheveled egg on the broad brow of a lecturer, I thought of those dear old days When Minnehaha had not been embalmed in song and interurban lots between St. Paul and Minneapolis oould be bought for a string of glass beads, even as William Penn purchased the state of Pennsylvania. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. l!!' lm I ff~ [ Z Jr ■ i —t "And did you save her?" The three hundredth anniversary of the invention of the microscope id to be oelebrated at Antwerp this year. A scientist tells us that in analyzing the stomach of an oyster nothing but vegetable matter has ever been found. The hydrocarbon process of treating iron so that it will" not corrode is said to cost less than one-half of that of galvanizing, while the durability, under similar conditions, is considerably extended.••Yes, | saved her. It wasn't romantic, and you'll have to change it a good deal if you print it; btu that was tbe way it happened." "Who was it?" The reader will remember that I ended my last letter with our arrival in Jerusalem through the Joppa gate. The sun was setting with great beauty at the time, and for the first time in my life I realized the meaning of the phrase, "Jerusalem the Golden." Golden looked the domes and battlements of tto city in the smile of the declining sun. "It was this little hlonde girl of Mileses." - "And what did he say about it?" We were made comfortable at our hotel after the hard ride of the day, and remained within doors for the rest of the evening. The condition of the streets of Jerusalem does not invite going out at pight Rough roadways, much fi)th, pumarous stray dogs and little light are not inviting to the man who is in good Quarters and in pleasant company, even though he finda himself for the first time fa his life in the moet interesting oity on earth- But we arose betimes to begin a comprehensive round of sight seeing. The Joppa gate, by which we entered the city, is near the northwest angle of the walls, and is one of the four entrances through the walls of the city. It is a decayed looking structure, in this respect like almost all the buildings one sees in Jerusalem, and though it stands fifty feet high and has a battlemented top it would be found almost useless for purposes of defense. When passing within the walls one has to make a turn M fight angles and is reminded of the ancient use of walls and gates in keeping out enemies. These wails do not incloae what ia now the whole city, being not more than perhaps two miles and a half long. Soap bubbles blown with newly-generated hydrogen gas have been found to act as electrical condensers, the liquid of which when broken exhibited a negative charge. It is suggested that this faot explains fireballs sometimes seen during thunder-storms.; A kxtmbeb of London medical menl have united to form a hypnotic society, the purpose of which will be to prevent! by law publio exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism. Another object will be to study privately and in a scientific manner the phenomena of those morbid' states. It takes a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, itr being estimated that the present growth of the world would make a layer less than one-eighth of an inch! in thickness and that it would take W million years of vegetable growths to form a coal bed ten feet in thiokness. The poisonous grain known as kesari lal which has long been used as an article of food among the poorest classes oft India, has, ubder the experimentation Df a continental dootor, been found toj five up its poisonous qualities if sub-j ected to a sufficiently high temperature, tt promises to be extensively grown, asi .t is very productive. A French savant has calculated the time required for a journey round the sarth, and has obtained the following results: A man, walking day and night, without resting, would take 428 days; in express train, 40 days; sound, at a medium temperature, 33hours; a canion ball, SlJi hours; light, a little over Dne-tenth of a second, and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little under Dne-tenth of a second. A be cent German patent for a new insulating material for electric conluctors specifies the use of paper which las been thoroughly soaked in an immoniacal copper solution. The pasty mass is then pressed against the conlucting wires to be covered by means' Df rollers, and the whole is finally jubmitted to i strong pressure. When! lry, the covered wire is passed through) i bath of boiling linseed oil, being lefl-- In it until the covering is saturated, rhis makes it elastio and impenetrable so moisture. The covering is said to be lurable and efficient as a non-conductor.! Thb Lancet, in discussing the excessive use of opium by the late Wilkio Collins, says: "Overwork produoes ex-j laustion in all cases. Physiological! laws can not be set at defiance. So farj is opium is concerned, it undoubtedly liminishes the susceptibility to exJ . and hence may enable ai attention is diverted by palnl , and perhaps to conoen-' thoughts more fully upon soma int; but, as a mental stimu-» ployment is to be deprecated! unsound and dangerous. The con-j engendered by its use does the position of a stimu4 erroneously claimed foal So the years fled away, and the King built himself » new palace, or more properly speaking, had his subjects build it for him at fifty cents a day and found. A sumptuous and imposing pile it was, wrought all of billiard-ball material and mahogany, hand polished, and inlaid with gold and the rosy linings of shells. The angel also followed suit, and, if any thing, went him one better. After that it was chillier between them. It was in Pennsylvania only a short time ago that we met, running out of Altoona, the justly celebrated conductor who can extend his cars, like a jack-inthe-box, at will. I do not recall his name, but I do remember that after I had apkedhim something about whether wo were late or not several times, he held his head down to my lips and shot his ear out at me like the warm, dank nose of a baby elephant, He has ft national reputation that way, it seems, but I did not know it. Others who knew both of us enjoyed the meeting very much. Since that I have been leas inquisitive about traius. One can hardly realize how strange the sensation is when he is greeted in that way by one to whom he has no letter of introduction. The Varied Value of Silver. Silver, in its relative value to gold, haa varied greatly at different times. In the days of the patriarch Abraham it was 8 to 1; B. C. 1000 it was 12 to 1; B. C. 600 it was 13 to 1, and at the commencement of the Christian era it was 0 to 1. In the year 500 A. D. it was 18 to 1; in 1100 it was 8 to 1, and in 1400 it was 11 to 1. In 1464 gold was only 6 times more valuable than the precious white metal, silver, and within the next hundred years 2 pounds of silver could be exchanged evenly for 1 of gold. In 1600 frogs. The island was fortunately without politics, there being but ono party—the King, who was generally too fat to be viciou, and the only religion practiced by the natives was that of religiously «aiing and sleeping. In short, it was m happy isle, a place of peace, of little work and less worry, of lotus-eating, oocoanut milk-drinking and dreams. But that was long ago, before the Island had a history, or, in other words, civilization, ohicanery and trouble. These graces, or disgraces—the appellation depending on the point of view— first began to be live and kicking realities in the island a hundred, or more, years ago. Their incubation began some twenty years prior to that period, when a keen-eyed, sharp-nosed son of the United States first got his grasping fist, and subsequently both feet and his nose, into this flowery finger bowl of the On our way to Solomon's pools we saw what is known as the Hill of Evil Counsel, where Judas Iscariot hangedhimself; also the Potter's Field, which was bought as a burial ground for strangers with the thirty pieces of silver that the repentant betrayer of his Lord refused to take of those who had negotiated with him to reward him for his treachery. Old Mr. Testy (returning to his room, after paying the hotel bill)—Don't touch met I'm not sure about- my insulation, and I've just been so heavily charged that I'm dangerous!—Puck. The man from over seas also took to wife one of the fairest daughters of the isle, a maiden of the least possible sagegreen odor to be found, and presently he found himself renewed and duplicated In a son, but slightly off color and pervaded by an exceeding pale-green perfume. Then he arose in his pride and happiness and cried (under his breath): "Why should I not sit upon the throne and rule the isle to mine own good, and make my bride my queen indeed, and cause my son to be a prince with soft clothes and an exceeding soft time?" A Closer Definition. After returning from the pools we proceeded directly to Bethlehem, the city of David. Unlike the other cities of Palestine, we found that it is inhabited mostly by Christians, with a few Mohammedans and no Jews. Its streets are narrow lanes, barely admitting a wagon of average width. "What is the charge against this prisoner?" asked the judge. gold was again worth 10 times as much as its paler brother. In 1725 gold was 13 times more valuable than silver, just as it was 500 years B. C. At the beginning of the present century it had risen in value to a higher point than at any time since 600 A. D., being 15 times more valuable than Bilver. In 1876 the ratio of silver to gold was 20 to 1, and in 1886 it was at the highest point ever known, since which time it has gradually declined to 20 to 1.—St. Louis Be public. "He struck this man with a brick, your honor," said the policeman. "Assault and battery." I also took a ride out. of Philadelphia in the cab of 9 locomotive engine later on. It was the Henry F. Shaw pf the Baltimore and Ohio, and I had to get up &t 6 o'clock a. m. to do it, but as I went to bed at 5:48, having been to the Union League club to see some friends the evening before, who had detained me, it did not matter. Securing a pound of cotton waste—I do not mean this in the sense, for that kind of cotton waist has little to do with this letter—I went down to the B. & O. depot, and, looking once more at my little volume of mechanical terms, so that I ooujd talk intelligibly with the engineer, I clambered up the front stoop of the cab. We rode out to Chester and back. That is all I know about it I beard a roar, a hiss, a snort, a whistle, a ring, the quick rumble of the pilot, the gasp of the mud valve, the low vibration of the crown sheet, the surging of the cut off, the sigh of the monkey wrench, and we were off. "Oi think/' put in the complaining witnew, "that it wor assault an' brickbattery."—Merchant Traveler. "I WILL SBAKB YOU FOB THE DRINKS." "Well, first he didn't know what tQ Pay, and then he says, for be is not a man of many words, and also he is a poor man, bat he did catch me by the hand and his chin trembled, for she was his only child and her mother is dead, but he took a scrap of cotton waste out of my pocket and wiped his eyes with it and said, 'Old man, I cannot recall what fathers do when their dear and only daughters are jerked from the jawsof death, but if you will excuse the bluntness of a plain old man I will shake you for the drinks,*' At St. Paul I met * very tall Scotchman. I am six feet high, but he looks down on my broad and desolated skull as do the gallery peepwhen I hobnob with the orchestra on an opening night containing a divertissement. We had hardly passed the gates leading into the city when our horses stopped suddenly. The street was blocked by a camel, who, being frightened at the noise made by our wagons, refused to stir an inch. After a good deal of effort he was turned, his head in tbe opposite direction from where it had been, and then led around the block to make room for us to pass on. While the commotion incident to the revolution of the beast was in progress, Dr. Talmage and the writer left the vehicle and undertook to walk by way of change, but the slush and filth of the streets were so great as to compel us to return to our canvas covered barouche. Thanks in great part to the demonstrativeness of our driver, who was a Turk evidently in the hpbit of making his way in the world, we managed to pass through the throngs of people crowding the street and reached the Church of the Nativity. So he began to lay the wires, and, though there was no law compelling it, he laid them mostly underground, and ere long, as in the case of similar experiments, they caused explosions. The King himself, together with many of his friends and heelers, got tangled in them and were shocked and electrified, and at last the island biased with war. That was what the angel went fishing for; and he caught it; but the expedition proved to be a whaling cruise with the angel figuring as the whaled, and he repented in bitterness of spirit that he had ever undertaken such a whaling large job, for there came a day when the fields ran red and the air flickered and blushed with unpurpled lances, and he stood a prisoner upon ft bill and saw his billiard-ball palace hewn down, and all that was his swallowed up by fire and blotted from the finger-bowl. He Closed Promptly. Drummer—Well, this has been a good day for me. Won't you come out and take something? sea. He did not come to this island kingdom intentionally, however, but astride C?f a floating mast with his ooat-tail pockets full of sand and his toes garlanded with seaweed bouquets and barnacles. His stomach was a good deal improved by fasting, too, when he arrived, and the sun had kissed him with m most ardent kiss, leaving a large vermillion blush upon his nose. Yet in oonrage he was all uncOwed, though the milk oi human kindness in him was slightly curdled by the heat and a good deal watered by the cruel sea. He came alone and unattended Rave by the tepid winds and asure waves and sun fish nibbling .at his corns. Those who embarked upon the same voyage with him when the ship went down two days bofore bad steered their broken masts, empty barrels, hen-ooops and bales of hay to the bottom or to other isles. He alone had found his way into the finger- Though a city, as I have said, of 40,000 inhabitants, Jerusalem has not a well within its walls, and the water used is either rain water kept from the last rainy season some six months ago or water carried in skins of animals by men or women, donkeys W camels, from wells more or leas distant. With thousands of houses Jerusalem hasn't one chimney, and the traveler who, chilled by exposure or the humidity of its vault like dwellings, needs artificial beat must be content with the poor comfort afforded by a brasier of live charcoal, the substitute for stoves in the city. No vehicle ever endangers lifeorlimbof pedestrians within its walls. Merchant—No, sir. I never take any thing in business hours, Mr. Brass; but then my store will close in about fifteen minutes,—Jiowell Mail. Does a United States senator ever borrow money of another senator? Yes, such cases have been known. There was one of which I know something, and as the loan has not been repaid 111 omit the name of the borrower, though the creditor says he is welcome to it for his wit A southern senator, who has since retired from public life, asked Don Cameron for money with which to make a payment on some property he had bought Cameron demurred a little, whereupon the southerner asked: A Borrowing Senator. Strong Circumstantial Evidence. Coroner—When did you Bee Editor Hull last? Witness—Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. ♦'Did he have any great amount of money with him that you know about?" •'Yes, sir." (Sensation.) "Then you think that bis death may have been caused by foul play?" "You must be very fortunate to be ao large and tall," I said; "you certainly command the respect of every one." "Yes, it may have been." "Are you not my friend?' "Yes. But is that any reason why I should be your banker?' "Now, will you please tell the jury what amount of money Editor Hull had wheu yon saw him?* "Three dollars."- "Yes, I get all the respect I want, but I get no comfort. I travel a good deal and I suffer a good deal. My wife is quite short. You know tali men always marry short wives. Well, she cannot touch her feet to the floor, and I am knocking my brains out all the time. In a street car her feet swing like a pendulum and my legs reach across the aisle when I sit down and my silk hat ioolp like an acrimonious porcupine all the time. The straps on a street car make a tall man buy a new hat every six weeks and 9 short woman can't reach them without tearing out her sleeves. "Is not the life of the engineer one of extreme peril?" I asked Harry S. Burall, our handsome engineer. He did  hear me, for it was a suburban train, and as we were quite busy stopping and starting he wotted not what I said. Perhaps it is due to the prejudice born of my religious training that notwithstanding all its discomforts and shortcomings as a city, its narrow lanes, innumerable dark alleys, miserable architecture, its miro and its filth, I left Jerusalem with many regrets. Of the city Dr. Talmage said to me: "While I have been building up my ideas of Jerusalem all my lifetime, the highest summit of my expectation does not reach the base of tbe reality." We were received very politely by a monk, who undertook to act as our guide. This highly intelligent and obliging person spoke English fairly well and did his best to explain every nook and corner of the structure. Before us down stairs where the manger was in which the Saviour saw first the light of day he handed each of us a lighted candle. He then led the way down to a series of natural grottoes, which certainly presented the appearance of a khan or inn such as are still seen in Palestine. At tbe head of one of these rooms, formed in the solid rock, is a highly illumined representation of the Saviour's birth. This was pointed out as the exact spot occupied by the manger in which repoaed the Holy Child. Theii the King dec reed that the fallen angel should be oast out, and as there was no land contiguous it seemed imperative that he should be cast into the sea. The ceremony, therefore, waa prepared for. But in tho interim the angel's United States wits had been at work, and ho bogged for one last audi* ence With the King. He wanted to get even. Reluctantly the King consented to be his audience, and when the prisoner stood in his presence be harshly bade him say his little say. "Well," the would be borrower replied, smiling, "I am like the elector of Saxony. He refused to join the confederacy unless he was promised a certain sum of money, declaring that those were the best and most enduring friendships which were confirmed with favors."— Washington Letter. '—Time. At the Literary Reception. First Author (in background)—Tol« lerby seems to be a perfect lion  I can't soe why they're making such a fuss over him. In the end they fed, adopted and assimilated him, or rather ho assimilated them. The thing that ho did it with waa a copper cent; an old-fashioned cop- "And, as we say in Enghjnd, do you not enter with hearty zest, after awhile, upon this jolly life as you. gayly tool your trap down the wold and out across the mere, like perdition beating tan bark?" Second Ditto—Haven't you heard? He's been accused of plagiarizing tho plot and all the characters of his last novel, and bis publishers can't print 'em fast enough to supply the demand. —Puck. A taxidermist of Asheville, N. C., made a proposal to Richmond parties to prepare the body of Jefferson Davis so as to permit of its use as a statue, guaranteeing it to last, exposed to the elements. at least a 000 years. r\JT rr if- * f At that moment the ruddy fireman, Mr. J. H. Metzgar, swung wide the fire door, opening E. U. EJ., ran a poker into the hot maw of the engine, letting out a flame which reached for my lithe and gazelle like limbs, gently scorching the embroidery at the base of my Dr. Jigger underwear, roared at the top of its lungs and drowned my voice. The first morning after our arrival found us on the summit of Golgotha, the place of a skull. Dr. Talmage opened the Bible he always carries with him, and read the story of the crucifixion. The party consisted of Mrs. Talmage and Mi- May Talmage, the writer and his wife, to whom the doctor pointed out at the appropriate passage in the narrative the Damascus gate through which the Saviour is said to have been led out before the tragic event that took place on the hill on which we were standing. "O King," the angel cried, rolling up the whites of his eyes, "I once was as a fragrant oil upon thy beard, as a soft goat skin under thy feet, but now I am as a boil under thy belt, a thing to let a running-out of the oonntry. But 1 have been of golden service to thy people. I have loved thein with a lova that passed all understanding, and would bloss them and thee with this, the only thing justice hath left me," and with a large tear trembling on the point of his nose he drew that old copper cent from his pocket and laid it with a sob at the King's feet. He had gavod it for seed, and now, like the thoughtful and prudent provider that he was, ho proceeded to plant it. H* Cometh Not Now. "I don't know how we are going to remedy cms tning, Dut 1 suuer especially, for I can't sleep in an ordinary berth at alL I have a bed made to order at home, but I can't put it in a shawl strap and travel with it. I lie diagonoDf, like an unprincipled politician, all night, and then in the morning, while I tie my shoes, all the people in the train walk over me on their way to the dining car, and a stout man in the upper berth falls out of it astride my -lieck. He says, 'Excuse me,' and then falls over my feet, sits in my lap, and goes away, and the man opposite steps on me through the curtain, brains me with his valise, swears, thinks that makes it all right, and keeps on dressing till people come in and tell him that we are in the round house. A Cold Night for Klopement*.  ternal stimuli man whose a tt & to obtain relief, ■ trate his *v I 1 particular poll lant, Its en M """""" . IV stant need )nD »yr not strengthei . «*_ lant, so often this drug." 11 BD The Wind (t I ■BHHBEafc very industriou The Bain— about every liU m DJ phia Inquirer ~ W wh~ * "~ IV ' And *®My dear, 1 Young L*Ochinvar—It's all u Kate! -- "" "Tommy, what did yoursistcr say the other evening when she received my note, saying that I couldn't come that night?" "She didn't say any thing. She went to the piano and began to play something."After he had reverently surveyed the place Dr. Talmage remarked: "The gate through which our Lord entered this world was a gate of rock—a hard, cold gate—and the gate through which He departed was a swing gate of sharpened spears." "And do you not at times have to throw her over and run for the wood box or jerk the poor child of some unknown Pennsylvania duke from the track, handing her back to her parents unscathed and receiving $2.80 there/or, at the same time getting laid off for thirty days for not keeping out of the way of the regular through express, beside hav. ing to pay for a Pullman car, which is worth far more than a child, especially where it was a poor child with several brothers and sisters? And do you not think, seriously, that a child or two. "Something sad, I suppose." "No, something very lively."- Blade. '—Yankee We stayed there until afternoon, deeply moved by the awful associations of the Violating the Traditions. Brazenfleld (proprietor of the Century Minstrsls —100 — count them —100)— Well, Doxy, how's business? ri. Before leaving Dr. Talmage said hours he had spent on the hill Calvary were to him the most solemn and overwhelming of all his life. There was the center from which the continents had been touched, and from which all the world would yet be moved. To him it was the most sacred place on earth. When we had returned to an ante-room of the church our guide invited uq, to partake of refreshments. He had prepared for us excellent tea and nice white bread. This was better than any bread we had eaten since leaving Cairo. The honey he served to us was deliriously acceptable. As the friendly monk had refused to take compensation for his companionship as our guide. Dr. Talmage insisted on paying for the refresnmenta we had taken and availed himself of the opportunity he found in this way quietly to bestow a considerable sum in acknowledgement of the courtesy and hospitality with which we had been treated. Before taking our departure from the Church of the Nativity we entered pur names on a register of visitors. Wrfthen started on our way back to Jerusalem, passing as we did so a Jewish cemetery, which lies under the shadow of the Temple hill. The Hebrew believes that there will be the scene of the great judgment. Four tombs hewn out of the solid rock attract observation by their superior size and imposing appearance. Of these the tomb of Absalom is the largest. It stands apparently nearly fifty feet high, and is certainly not less than twenty feet square. The pillars at the sides are of the Ionio order ofarchjtect- Doesn't Have To. neerinifly)—You've been i this year, haven't you? Yes; but I don't blow Doxenby (manager)—Um—well—not very good. I'm sorry to say the attendance is falling oft liko shot. ;le thing I do.—Phlladel- X CAKE ASTRI DE OF A FIX) ATI SO HAST. er with a red complexion which he rand in the snuff pocket of the spikealL This was all he had, savo the spikeail itself and the night-shirt; throe enines of revolution not to bo despised, owever, when guided against the darkera of barbarism by a skillful hand. "O King," he went on with cruel wisdom, f'thou hast decided that my posterity until the fourth generation shall hold no property In thy kingdom, lest my evil ambition find renewal in them and woufd the State airaln. To this I bow: tiS JuBt. But that they may not arrive at that far-off period penniloss, I implore thee, O King, that this oopper cent may be laid within tho treasury for them. And to show my love for thy people, and my sorrow that I have grieved thee. I now will and depose in thy presence that until that time this copper shall be a fund in trust for the nscs of the populace. Only this I do provide, that he who takes it forth and uses it for a year shall, when he returns it, place a like amount within the treasury with it, and each succeeding year the whole shall be given forth, the State securing it against lo«, and the original and a like amount returned, and thus on until the years of this just penance shall be run, that those of my I blood who follow me end ere innocent may fed » pittance lbe». JTUt (Suspiciously)—"You haven't been springing any new jokes on the people, have you?"—-Time.  "I hear people say all the time how lovely to be so large and tall; but the world is not made for large people or small people. It was made for middle size people, mentally and physically. They get on the best. This is no place for extremes. If you are a fool, go to the institution for fools. If you are a genius you will be tolerated as an eccentric but diseased mind. It is better to keep in the middle of the road. A1 ternon Gave In. inure or inia, especially among wurimj people, should have little to do with the running time of trains?" The reader is aware that within the medley of buildings known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are shown what are claimed to be the scenes of the death of Jesus,His burial and resurrection. Where we visited is called sometimes the new Golgotha. It is situated without the city walls. After much careful examination and mature consideration Dr. Talmage and many other eminent men, among them the late Gen. Gordon, believe it to be the real site of the crucifixion. It stands immediately opposite the Damascus gate. Underneath it is Jeremiah's grotto, where the prophet iB said to have written his Lamentations. jan't afford to give it to jou. We must Bave our money," said Algernon. "I don't see why," said Penelope. "A much wiser man than you once said: 'Do not lose the present in vain perplex* itles about the future.'"—N. Y. Sun. The Anglers. We went a fishing—she and 1— 'P. You might as well go back. Selim's frozJh inj—Puck. At this point I was quite exjgmsted, and so was the engine. So the engineer did not hear me. I took off my plug hat, put out a little fire that had started on the top and said: The Ish were wary; They circled round the tempting fly la mood contrary. As the years went by he taught thom ow to spin tho wool of tho goat into ght and beany fabrics; then a nightlirfc and a spike-tall coat becLmo tho retailing mode of the kingdom. Ho lie taught them how to prepare sweetikes, crullers, sausages and many iher toothsome things which made leir hearts to burn and their tongues » wag in peevishness, among them the merican pie. After that they dreamed ore, Witn more nightmare ana divorce it. He als?, by the aid of the copper nt, showed them the uses of money; en their history began. They bored into the bosom of their 3ther—the earth, and with much sweat d skullduggery brought the shining We changed the bait. I cast sheep's eye» She jlayfcd a dimple, (Ah m«: tho' some are over wise, Pronsunce me Bimplc.) Millionairess—Is this the office of the Real Estate and Title Guarantee company?"I suppose you have loved ones who recognize your whistle and at night put a lamp in the window two times if well, three times for croup, four times for worms and five times to indicate buckwheat cakes for breakfast.'" With the Parental Blessing. Clerk—Yes, 'm. Mr. Stickney—I have come, Mr. Henpeck, to ask for the hand of your daughter.She bit—alas the misery, "Twa$ even barter, She caight a ninny—woe is me, I caught a Tartar. —H. T. Hollands, in Tim#. "By the way," said he, in conclusion, "I see that you are in one way the superior of Chauncey M. Depew." Millionairess—I have a million dollars' worth of real estate which I wish to exchange for a title. Have you a count or a marouis?—Puck. Mr. Henpeck-tBless you, my boy, take her; and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul. -Time. He pulled the handle of the under feed throttle and threw a large lump of bituminous coal at a dog who was not of gentle birth as we scooted into a tunnel, and all conversation was drowned in the turmoil of an echoing yell and screech and roar and spit and double shuffle as the eccentric chased the drawhead over the swift flying cylinder escapement with a doubly echoed statement like "Well, ho says that the fatal mistake of his lifetime was in making a humorous speech. There's where you have the advantage of Chauncey, I think." "Thank you, how?"' A Baslness Woman. A Friend In Need. Bank President—I like young Stylo and I would like to make him cashier, but his character— Getting at His Record. No other place in or near Jerusalem so fully answers to the description in the' Bible as the place of Jesus' execution. Its shape is unquestionably that of a skull. As Dr. Talmage, in my opinion, very correctly said: "A man need but feel the shape of his own cranium to be fully satisfied that this hill is the place Jones (to a former sweetheart)—So yon are going to throw yourself away on old Jimson? Expectant Bridegroom—So you wont be best man at my wedding, Tom? Why, I thought you were tho best friondlhad. Cynical Friend—So I am; that"B why I decline.—Time. I thanked him again and then strode down the walk, fiercely kicking the frozen debris from my path. She—Throw myself away I I guess you don't know that he has a million and a bad cas« of heart disease. Call that throwing myself' away? That's what I call getting fancy prices.—Texas Sifting*.Director—Not bad, I hopo? "Iknov absolutely nothing about it one way er the other." "Coulda't you persuade him to run for ■ome oettur official office?"—Time. The expert steeple climber may be * bad man and yet stand high in comwunitv.i