SULLIVAN J&Eh REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. All of Southern Mexico is now opened to Northern capital and enterprise. The navals vessel now being con structed by our Government will cost $53,000,000. There is a tremendous agitation in England against the use of canned goods from America. The Chicago Sun uvers that the ex traordinary supply of all kinds of ma. terial is making speculation almost ar impossibility. Americans have often marveled that members of the British House of Parlia ment wear their hats during sessions. Blackwood's Magazine .solves the mys tery. They have nowhere e'.se to put them. Industrial enterprises are beyig pigged upon a stoclfc basis, so that any one who has money may invest it safely and in a paying way. "This is co-operation," adds the Chicago Sun,' "but without the solialistic feature." The census report states that 29.57 per cent, of the farms of lowa are hired and 70.43 per cent, are owned by the persons cultivating them. The total liens on the farms of the State amounted to $101,745,92-1, the average rate of in terest being 7.30 per cant. Ex-Surgeou General Hamilton believes there will be rapre cholera with the com ing of spring. There is little or no doubt of it, agrees the New York Re corder. The country to be ready for it, and so ought every town and every person in the country. Economists say that about 1,300,000 persons of both sexes and all ages per ished by reason of the Franco-Prussian war ot 1870; and if one adds to this enormous number the 350,000 men de stroyed in preceding wars of the second empire, it is found tliat the reign cf Na poleon 111 cost France 2,bt)0,000 human lives, not counting the billions of money, the ruins of home's and the dismember- . ment. States the New .York Po3t: The as tounding "hews comes by cable that Prince Bismarck by way of proving that he really did cause the consolidation of the German Empire, and that it was uot the result of chance, has avowed that he forged that dispatch fiom Ems which precipitated the Frauco-German war of 1870. That the fatal dispatch was er roneous has long been known; that it was lorged by Bismarck has been sus pected by many. Co-education certainly teaches womon to demand their rights as men do, re marks the San Francisco Chronicle. T.ius the female students of the Ohio St.ite University, when their complaints about the sanitary condition of their rcc.tation and lunch rooms resulted in no improvement, struck and walked out in a body. This brought things to a head and reform is promised 3pcedily. The incident will probably serve as a pre cedent in colleges, where too often the just complaints of the students are un heeded. The Rochester (N. Y.l Jewish Tidings says: The utter destruction of American fur-bearing animals is regarded as a question of only a few years. It is claimed that 200,000 trappers are en gaged in the industry, aud that their mode of acquiring the furs is de-tine 1 to ■wipe our, before many years, tile many varieties of these animal?. Their cap ture is accomplished by traps which aro decimating the animals much the same as nets are destroying the fish. S >.nc idea of the extent of this industry may be gained from the export trade, whic'i to England alone, during the last year, amounted to over 3,000,000 skins, cam prising some 1,396,000 muskrats, 551, 000 skunk 9, 549,000 raccoons, 125,700 fur seals, 12,700 bears, 11,000 beavers and 7300 others. The Ceusus Office has issued a bulle tin, giving statistics of the railroad mile age of the world in 189.K It shows that out of a total railway mileage for the world of 370,281 miles, the United States have no less than 163,597 miles, or 43.8 per cent, of the whole, and that the railway mileage of the United States exceeds, by 3197 miles, the entire mile age of the old world—Europe's 136,865 miles, Asia's 18,798 miles and Africa's 8992 miles, making an aggregate of but 159,655 miles. It is interesting to note the astonishing growth of the railway mileage of the United States from tl*s census year of 1830, when there were less than forty miles, up to 1890. In 1840 the figures were 2755 mile?, in 1850 they had risen to 8571 miles, in 1860 the total had swelled to 28,919 miles, the census of 1870 showed the mileage to be 49,168 miles, that of 1880 placed the figures at 87,724 miles, while the eleventh census figures give the as tonishing total of 163,597 miles. THE GOOD-BY KISS AT THE DOOR. Her eyes were illumed with a glance of pride And her heart with love aglow As she softly tripped to her husband's side When he opened the door to go. And there in her morning wrapper trim, While a smile her red lips wore, She stood on the steps and gave to him A good-by kiss at the door. She turns to her duties with cheerful heart, For she has not now to learn That the wife and husband must often part When the daily bread's to earn; And there's peace and joy in her gentle breast As she sews, or sweeps the flour, And every task is essayed with zest For the good-by kiss at the door. And the husband striving in life's rough race, Where there's little time for play, Has many a glimpse of her smiliag face In his mind through the busy day— And his look is tender, his eyes are bright As he cons bis ledger o'er, For he thinks of the welcome that waits at night, And the good-by kiss at the door. O wives and husbands, the world is bright When the heart with love doth glow, And its path is smooth and its burden light If you're willing to make tham so; And the sun will shine through the darkest day And scatter the clouds that lower And the roses blossom along life's way For the good-by kiss at the door. —Cape Cod Item. AN ATONEMENT. A RUSSIAN LOVE BTORV. fry'TllMiT W RENE VRADSKI and Vladimir Po ll H very different sta ll though he was uni tu. P_- jjmm vei-sally esteemed 4r' i E * or fatness of HBr k' s judgment, his \ |J%II BU P erior ability as a counselor in the vl'lnge mir, and his undaunted courage as a hunter and horseman, yet he was the only son of a humble trades man, while she was no less than the daughter of the proud and wealthy Prince Vradski,Governor of Perm in East ern Russia, whose immense castle tow ered over the tcp of lofty Mount Kon jakofski, and overlooked the foaming and rushing waters of the Sosva. Irene was a tall and slender girl of nineteen, and very beautiful. Her large, dreamy black eyes showed at once the purity of her soul and the tenderness of her heart. She resembled her mother, who wor shiped her only child; the two always boro each other company, while the Prince passed most of his time in Perm, the capital of the province of the same name. On a stormy November day, when the snow was more than twelve feet deep, and a keen, strong wind drifted it over rocks and bushes, Vladimir was return ing home from hunting sables on the Prince's vast property, when, on turcing the coiner of a bluff where the ground suddenly sloped to the valley below, his experienced eye detected an unmually large and peculiar drift which he had never noticed there before. He surmised , what it was, and at once tQrocd toward it his fiery stallions, who, snorting at the excited cries of their master, sped like the wind over the hard-packed scow. There, sure enough, lay an overturned sleigh, but no sign of lite was visible about it. The horses must have run away, or more probably had been hurled into the deep ravine now filled with snow. With all his might Vladimir re moved the snow as best he could on the leeward of the drift, and soon he came upon a human body. It was that of a womr.n and was frozen stiff; then he found another, a man's, that of the driver; and after more digging he came to that of a girl. He saw that the oven alone could resuscitate the first two bodies, if indeed life had not already left them; but that of the gill was only benumbed. AVithout losing a moment he began to rub her face witih snow until it showed signs of animation. As she opened her eyes, she* murmured: "Mother, what has happened?" Then, icalizing her position, she blushed, and recognizing her rescuer, said brokenly: '•You, VladimirPoniateffl Do I owe my life to you?" The hunter bit Irs lip, for he thought her words implied disappointment at being saved by a plebeian I "Oh, I am not worthy to even snatch her from death's grip I" he mused. •'How long shall ray name be thus de spised? But to her I could foigive al most anything!" With this reflection he carried the beautiful damsel to his own sleigh, and never before did his heart leap more wildly than now, when his arms were laden with this frail creature. How his eld flame, his love for her, which he had thought almost rooted out of his soul by avoiding meeting or even seeing her, now sprang up again in his bosom and and fired the innermost fibres of his whole frame. He carefully placed the girl upon the soft rugs; then went again for the moth er, and again for the driver. He piled upon them the furs from their sleigh; but on Irene he laid his own bear skin overcoat. Fifteen verts of enow and drift lay before him, and although he felt that he needed food and rest, he turned bis wind footed steeds to the keen blast, and urged them on with shouts and whip. The snow storm had abated, but not the wind, and the sun, though it shone with majestic splendor and rendered the whole scenery perfectlv dazzling, was as cold as a winter moon. The snow crackled under the iron shod fe«l of the flying stallions, the cold grew more and more intense, and the gallant rescuer began to feel the blood LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1893. freezing in his veins. Under any other circumstances he would have halted his horses, rolled himself on the snow, and have run about until his blool flowed freely; but now three human lives were at stake, one of which was dearer to him than his own. On, cn rushed the swift stallions, reeking with sweat from the mad race, and even when their brave driver ceased to urgo them forward, as he leaned frozen stiff against tho dash board, the faithful and intelligent animals kopt up their homeward course as fast as ever. At Inst they s'opped before his house, and their neighs brought out the in- I mates, who, sseing Vladimir sanding erect and without turs, at once divined what had befallen him. With Rissian love and intelligence they has ened to carry him in, s.ripped him of h's clothes, plunged him in cold water, and then rubbed him until he came tqtJhfe again. IPs tiist words wero to ask how Irene and her mother felt; but s.-eing the va cant lcok on their fac.s, he hurriedly drtssed, and rushed out to bring mother and daughter into the house. The wo men of tho household attended to their needs, and ere long res ored them both to conscious uss. Night fell. The horses were spent and must be carefully stabled. Her Lady ship must needs pass one night in the bumble home of the Poniateffs. I sty her Ladyship, for Irene remained for some time nursing her rescuer, who, through the exertion, and the exposure and the sudden reani mation of his only and all absorbing love, fell a prey to a fever, which made him linger at death's thres hold for long and weary weeks. The girl had asked for this privilege, in or der that she might testify her gratitude to Vladimir Poniateff for saving her life and that of her mother. He raved about his Irene, who thus learned what sentiments were harbored in the brave young man's breast. In his delirium, he fancied that he was snatch ing her from a pack of hungry wood wolves; then the scene shifted to an icy lake, and he thought that he arrived just in time to rescue her lrom a hole in the ice into which she was sinking, be numbed and frozen. Then it was au avalanche that had overtaken them both, and with his hands lie opened a passage through the snow-slide and carried from under it the inanimate form of his darling. His ravings lasted for nearly a week, and his life, dejpaired of by the village doctoi, had been in constant danger; but Irene's unflinching devotion con quered disease and death, and re paid him the debt ot her own life. He was saved at last, and convalescence began. She still remained by his side, and attended to all h>s wants, and now she discovered how learned he was, and that, besides his solf-taught Latin and Greek, he knew also the old Slav. One day she asked him how and where he had learned the old Slav. In answer he begged her to fetch him from his bookcase a carefully wrapped parcel which he described to her. She com plied with his request, aud he unfolded an old manuscript, written, he said, by one of "his ancestors." "Your ancestors?'' she inquired in as tonishment. "Yes, by Ivan Vradski." "Ivan Vradski I Why, that sounds rather like one of m; ancestors. lam a Vradski." "Irene, vou are not. You are a Ponia teffl" He said this in such a serious tone that she knew it must be true; but what were his proofs? "Ycu are a Poniateff, and I a Vrad ski; so says this iranuscript, which gives the whole history of your family and mine from the remotest times. I will read it to you. Listen." AVhen the convalescent paused, ex hausted from reading, she knew that Ivan Vradski, an undoubtedly genuine prince and former owner of all that her fathor now possessed, was, at the time Russia was divided iuto provinces, out witted by Alexander Poniateff, his half brother, who usurped Vradski's estate and name and reduced the real Vradski to bondage, whence he was freed only on the sworn condition that he and all his successors should take the name of Poniateff and be satisfied with a civil office in the small village of Bogoslovsk. Ivan had accepted this degradation in preference to slow death in the dungeon where he had been thrown. To corrob orate the story, tho writer had purpose ly given dates and details which, he said, when compared with certain books in the library at the Vradski Castlo, would be fouud true. Vladimir soon became well enough to warrant Irene's return to her father's mansion, where she at once set out to compare Ivan Vradski's startling manu script with the books mentioned in it, and still extant in the castle library. Winter advanced rapidly, and Vladi rair was the constant and pleasant sub ject of Irene's thoughts. Now that she knew ho was even her superior in educa tion and birth, and that he wanted none of those qualities that form the character of a true nobleman, she felt that her father would bless her love for her res cuer. How happy she was when Vladi mir would came to see her with the ex cuse of presenting her and her mother with the choicest spoils of his hunt, and how wretched when he left her and stayed away 1 She could wish to be again under the snow-drifts, or at hie humble home nursing himt Christmas was very near now, and the great chapel of the Vradski Castle was being prepared for the midnight mass, to which the whole village flocked on Christmas Eve. It came at last; the chapel was thronged with pious meu and women. Prince Vradski had com: from Perm for the occasion, as was his wont, aud with the Princess and his daughter mingled with the rest of the worshipers. Mass is commenced, the gray-haired Pope is about to conse crate tho bread and wine; he has turned himself to the people and solemnly shouted to the awed congregation: I "Ohnst is born unto jou," The bells ring merrily forth the happy tidings, and tho faithful follow their time-hon ored custom of kissing their neighbor. The Prince kisses his wife, and Irene, under her parents' eyes, kisses, not her wealthy cousin, Pariowski, at her right, but Vladimir at her left. Everybody has remarked it; and albeit the villagers find it only too natural, her parents are astonished and her cousin is highly in dignant. He bestows a look of scorn upon the penniless Vladimir, who returns it as haughtily. Pariowski decides to ask an explana tion from the Prince the very next morn ing, but finds his uncle quite changed from what h(» had been during their journey from Perm to the castle the pre vious day. Irene has asked and obtained a private interview with her father, who, although greatly astonished at her recital of Ivan's manuscript, could not gainsay its veracity, and before Christmas Day is over he febls happier than ever before in his life, ne has atoned for his an cestor's great sin by granting his beauti ful daughter to the brave Vladimir.— Translated for Romance. Feeding tho Berlin Poor. Here in Berlin, writes Frank G. Car penter in the Washington Star, meals are served to poor people at almost cost prices, and among the cellar institutions of the city are the "Volks Kitchens" or the People's Kitchens. There are a number of these, and they are managed by the ladies of Berlin, who superintend them aud who take turns in managing them. They have good cooks, and they feed hundred of people every day. In them you can get a dinner for about five cents, and a bowl of soup or of rice costs you three cents, while you can get a first-class cup of coffee for a cent. I visit ed one of these the other day. Two nice looking old ladies stood behind a clean, white counter, and back of these were great bowls of soup, with cooks presid ing over them. The room was, I judge, about fifty feet long and not more than twenty wide. It was in a cellar, and it was divided up into compartments for women and men. At the entrance there was a cashier, who gave you checks for what you wanted upon the payment of the money, and you walk back to these old women and get your soup or coffee and carry it to the bcnch<» in the room, where you can sit down at long tables and cat. I laid down three cents and bought a bowl of soup. It was made of beans and it contained nearly a quart. I took a bowl of rice of about the same size, and I sipped at a one-cent cup of coffee and found it not bad. Every thing was as clean as could be, and the closs of people who were eating appeared to be respectable. One ot the old ladies told me that they often fed as many as a thousand a day, and that they gave sup pers as well as dinners. They said that the institution paid its Expenses, and - that it did not try to make money. Gold Nugget Shaped Like a Hand. There havo been many large and oddly shaped gold nuggets found in the United States and elsewhere, but the oddest of them all was that discovered at the Midhas Mine on Sulky Gully, near Melbourne, Australia, in 1887. The nugget was flat and almost the exact counterpart in contour of a colossal human hand held open, with the excep tion of the thumb and forefinger, which were closed together in a manner so as to make it appear that the thumb was holding the finger in place. Its great est length was 12fr inches and its great est breadth eight inches. It was of the very purest gold, with but a little of foreign substances adhering (mostly be tween the "fingers"), and weighed 617 ounces. It was found in the northwest main drive of the Midhas Mine, 120 feet below the surface of the earth and at a spot only fifty feet from where the famous "Lady Brassey" nugget was dis covered the year before. It weighed fifty-one pounds of puro gold, worth $225 per pound. In 1891 a nugget of fifteen pounds weight, shaped exactly like a cross, with the ex ception of the right arm, was dis covered in the Buriss Mine near the same place.—St. Louis Republic. Sonrce oi Color in; Matter in drapes. In a report of foreign investigations appears an account of careful experi ments made by A. Gautier in the vine yard. Ho discovered, as have others already reported upon, that the removal of leaves just before the ripening of tho grades in a dry season is injurious, the fruit being relatively acid, deficient in sugar, yielding wines ot poor color and quality and more readily succumbing to attacks of fungus diseases. The main object of the experimenter's investigations, however, was to deter mine the source and nature of the color ing matter of the fruit. It appears that this is elaborated in the leaves and trans ferred to the berry at time of ripening, for the removal of leaves about the time of maturity was accompanied in every case by a decided etiolation of the berry. Furthermore, examinations of the leaves revealed the presence in them of the characteristic grape coloring matter. Analysis showed this coloring matter to be made up principally of three acids.— New York World. • The Soldier' 4 Pocket Haudkerchlef. Some years ago handkerchiefs were not considers ! a necessary part of a sol dier's kit, says the Leeds Mercury. Permission to cairy these articles will now probably bo given, for I see the War Office authorities have sanctioned a mil itary handkerchief being patented by Lieutenant-Colonel Fulton. Ou this handkerchief is printed all sorts of useful information concerning the use and construction of the Lee- Metford rifle, the alphabat used by army signalers, general rules to be observed in any position in which a soldier may find himself on campaign, the various bugle calls and other things, many of which are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to use it in the manner naturally prompted bj a cut ting '•nor'eaater," SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Over 385 electric roads cover 4000 miles. Leanness is generally caused by lack of power in the digestive organs. In Scotland some of the slaughter houses are being furnished with appar atus for stunning the cattle by elec tricity. A safety device for window cleaners consists of a strap fastened to each side of the window frame and also to a hook In the belt of the cleaner. Stains from nitrato of silver may eas ily bo removed from the hands by a sol ution of chloride of lime. Fruit stains may bo removed by holding the hands over n burning match or sulphur set on fire. A glass factory at Liverpool, England, has glass journal boxes for all of its machinery, a glass floor, glass shingles on its roof, and a smokestack 105 feet high built wholly of glass bricks, each a foot square. One of the latest applications for heat produced by electricity is the drying of lumber for planning purposes. The production of heat is becoming in Otta wa one of the most' important functions of electricity. From experiments made by English scientists it appears that camphor and oxygenated water are the most energetic excitants of growth' not only as regards the acceleration of germination but as affecting the vigor of plants. In August last the planet Venus was visible in the daytime at San Diego, Cal. A California correspondent writes that he was one of many who witnessed the phenomenon, and says it wus espec ially noticeable, as the planet could bo seen with the sun almost shining in one's eyes. It is said that a larger cave than the Mammoth Cave, situated in the Ozark Mountains, near Galena, Mo., has been explored for a distance of more than thirty miles. In it have been found bones of recent and prehistoric animals, including the hyena and cave bear, and flint arrow-heads, but no bones of man. A few animals of the usual forms found in caves are still living there, including a white newt. Authorities in France have been try ing the cryptophone, devised about nino years ago for military and naval purposes. For military use, the apparatus consists of a highly sensitive vibrator and a mi crophone suitably arranged in a pine box, which is buried two or three feet under the road to be watched. Wires lead to a bell or other signal at the ob serving station. When an alarm is given, the observer connects a telephone, Bnd is able to hear the movement over the road and even to determine its direc tion, the apparatus being so sensitive as to indicate the passage of a half-dozen men or a single cart. Jay Gould's Traits of (hnracte.'. An acquaintance of Mr. Gould says that a remarkable trait in his character was that fierce instinct for family so con spicuous in General Grant, but which has never found tho same occasion for its exercise. When he came home from his office his wife was always awaiting him. In the country, if entertaining guests, Mrs. Gould would disengage her self for this moment of homecoming. After Mrs. Gould's death, her daughter Helen took her place, and no enticement without ever prevented her from wel coming her father on his return home. His womankind were kept apart from all considerations of business. At Mrs. Gould's death her fortune, which was considerable, was still invested as it was left her by her father. In no vicissitude was Mr. Gould ever tempted to touch it. He abhorred all business dealings with women. This dates from au experience early in his career on the market. Two maiden aunts up in the country sent him their savings, SSOO, to speculate for them in stocks. He did so, and lost it. The money was strictly returned to them, and at no inconvenience to Mr. Gould. But this was not business; it seemed to open depths which might become deeper. He was frequently entreated afterward by women who were near to him, as by women outside, but his dealings thence forth were with men. In ono respect Mr. Gould was said to resemble Renan, who, when he utterly disapproved of an opponent, said: "You are right a thou sand times," and having disar.ned him, proceeded to efface all that he had put forth. When Mr. Gould wished to wipe out an objector he began by agreeing with all he said.—St. Louis Star-Sayings. Dig Game. The magnifying power of mist has of ten been described, but perhaps never in a more striking manner than by Mr. Pike in his account of his travels in the "Barren Ground in Northern Canada." We were traveling in a thick fog and saw an animal, apparently at some dis tance, bounding along tho horizon at a most remarkable pace. All down tho line there were cries of "Musk ox!" "Wolfl" Guns were snatched from tho sleighs, and the dogs charged at a gallop in pursuit of the strange animal. After a rush of ten yards the quarry disappeared. The firjt man had put his foot on it, and it turned out to be one of the small mice so common in that country.—Pniladelphia Record. EUhfy Eight Degrees Below Zero. The coldeit known spot on tho earth's surface in on the Eastern Slope, a shelv ing mountain that runs down to near the warer's edge, on the eastern bank of the Lena River, in Northeast Siberia. The spot in question is nine and a fourth miles fro n Serkerchoof, about latitude sixty-seven north, and longitude 134 east. Dr. Woikoff, director of the Russian Meteorological Service, gives the minimum temperature of the place aa being eighty eight degrees below aero. It is a place of almost perpetual calm. In the mountains uear by, where windy weather is the rule, it is not nearly ao cold,—St. touis Republic, Terms—ll.oo in AdTance; t1.25 after Three Months. IN A MACARONI FACTORY. HOW A PALATABLE ITALIAN PRO DUCT 18 MANUFACTURED. The Ingredient* Are Simple Flour and Waler—The llough 1a Pressed Through Hole* In Strings. ~T —~f£W people who eat that tooth- I—/ some article macaroni know I how or where it is manufac (£~ tured. They, however, do know that when it is properly prepared it forms one of the most palatable and healthful dishes that is set upon the table. Many imagine that macaroni, vermicelli, spaghetti and noodles are chiefly made in Italy and imported into this country. To a certain extent this is true, but of late years the industry has so grown on this side of the ocean that now but one,tenth of the entire amount consumed in the United States is im ported, says the Philadelphia Times. Some years ago it was distinctively an Italian dish. The natives of that coun try were the first to make it, and they made a National dish of it. Other countries took up the article, until now it is known the world over. While at first Italy had the monopoly ot its man ufacture and exported large quantities of it, now it is made in different coun tries of Europe and also in the United States. In this country the work is done nearly entirely by Italians, who have immigrated from the mother soil, or by their American descendants. In New York City there are several large factories which produce an average of 35,000 pounds a day, while in this city, with a smaller number of factories, between 7000 and 8000 pounds are made daily. Probably the largest factory in this city is at Eighth and Christian streets. In this one alone 3500 pounds are manu factured each day. Much of this is con sumed in this city, but quantities are shipped to different places in the United States and to Canada and Cuba. A representative of this paper visited tho factory at Eighth and Christian, and made a tour of inspection through its three floors and watched the different steps which converts the flour into the hard aud brittle substance that after ward becomes so palatable in the hands of the chef or adept housewife. The flour and water is first put into what is called a dough-mixing machine. It is cylindrical in form, anil within it are knives or plates, which are worked by steam power. The dough is kept in this machine until it is thoroughly mixed. Then it is thrown into a circu lar trough about six feet iu diameter. Through this trough rolls a large stone weighing 3300 pounds. Over and over the dough this heavy weight passes, rolling it out flat. This process is kept up for half an hour. Th 3 next step is the placing of this well-rolled material in a powerful circu lar press worked by steam. The bottom of this machine is a copper plcte or mould. It is about au inch thick and perforated with holes, in the center of which is a pin. The dough is forced through those holes, the little pin in the center of each making the hollow center in the macaroni. It comes out in long strings, soft and so pliable that it could be tied in a knot. It is then taken upstairs where a man lnys it out in straight lengths on wire trays covered with paper. The whole is covered with heavy paper and the trays are put up in racks to dry. It lies in this position for eight dajs before it hardens and dries completely. It is kept as much from the air as possible, as the dampness prevents it from drying properly. Ou nice, clear days the win dows are allowed to remain open, but on windy dnys they are kept closed and the steam is turned on running the tempera ture up between seventy and ninety de grees. THIS heat does not affect the macaroni, but keeps the air dry. Vermicelli, spaghetti aud noodles are all made tho same way, except that the holes in the moulds through which they are forced are smaller. The vermicelli is made both white and of a yellowish tint. The coloring is dono with saf fron. When it is taken upstairs to dry it is laid out in curled-up shapes that give it a fancy appearance. There is yet another product that tho factory makes that is fane? pastes. These are used for soup the same as noodles, but present a much nicer appearance. For the pastes the same mixing and roll ing process is gone through with as in making tho maccaroni. Then the dough is taken up to the second floor, where it is placed in a pressing machine set in a hori zontal position. Instead of the ordinary round poles in tho moulding plates, the perforations take a number of different forms. All the letters of the alphabet are produced. They are very small and complete as to form and enlarge after being placed in the soup. Thus the Smiths, the Joneses, the Browns and the Johnsons may have served the initial letters of their names in their soup. Numbers, stars, rings and wheels are also made, while the pretty shapes of the pepper olive and melon seeds are also produced. After the different articles are thor oughly dried and hardened they are packed for shipment. The macaroni is made up in pound packages wrapped in tho familiar blue paper that many a housewife imagines has come all the way from Italy. It is also put up in other colors, with labels of different kinds, bearing Italian all of which give it a foreign look. The sfart : u3t a'id the Tro<ub >noj. There is a story told of a nowly ap pointed Colonel in the days of the old mirtiuets, who oxprossed his dissatisfac tion with the band as it marched past, because tho trorobonoj did not dress the slides of their instruments properly. Ono man would be half-way down while another was ju»t starting. In vain it was represented to him that different instru ments were of different co npass, and re quired different manipulation. That was nothing to him; hi must have uniform ity in the raukf. —Ail the Year Round. NO. 15. THE STREAM OF LIFE. Like a small streamlet on a mountain side, A white thread glancing in the summer ran, Lightly down leaping with a joyous spring. So paasea happy childhood's playful hoar. Next, through green dells and 'neath o'er sbadowing crags, The growing stream with heedless flow winds on. Now gladly lingering round some glowing isle That smiles with heavenly beauty, and allures With promise of perpetual delights; Now fiercely dashing down some rough cas cade Where rushinz waters split on hostile rocks. Spouting aloft the iridescent spray Drifted in sunless clefts by swaying winds; So pass the years of youtb. Our riper age Is like the broadened river's stately inarch, Whose current slacken?, yet admite no pause, But passes field and coppice, tower and town, Not wholly 'scaping from defiling stains. Yet to ling onward restlessly. Adorn Its smooth yet ever-sliding stream we haste. Nor mark the progress of its quiet speed, Till, faster rusbing as it nearsthe end. It sweeps us onward in resistless course Through the torn rapids of disease and paiu, Till, plunging down the cataract of death. We glide into a vast and unknown space, The boundiess ocean of eternity. —Walter W. Stent, in The Academy. HUMOR OF THE I»AF. It rather puts a belie on her mettle when she is extolled.—Statesman. Lantern-jawed people can't always throw light on a subject.—Sparks. The man that is buried in debt should of course wear grave clothes.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. There ate men such sticklers for the truth that they never indulge in self denial.—Boston Transcript. "Here's another case of. kid napping," said tho messenger boy who fouud a comrade asleep.—Washington Star. "I hear you didn't catch any tish, M>sj Emerson, yesterday." "No, Mr. Bleecker, they did not seem to be con tagious."—Town Topics. Dashaway— "What do you think of my new pepper-and-salt suit?" Jagway "lt makes me thirsty to look at it." —Clothier and Furnisher. The speed of railway trains is better brought to a point where even people on bridal tours regard the tunnel as a nuis ance.—Washington Star. "The survival of the fittest," Is a phrase that's rather rude. It suggests that ttie ohrysanthe— Mum will one day wear the duie. —Washington S4tar. Caller—"What are you looking through that big pile of comic papers for?" Exchange Editor (with a sigh of disappointment) — 4 'For fun."—Chicago Tribune. Publisher—"ls your novel realistic?" Author—"lt is. The hero and the heroine get married in tho first chapter and are happy ever afterward."—New York Herald. "Say, Job, I liavo just patented a new invention." "What is it?" "A chair that will sink to within a few inches of the floor when a worn in who wears a tall bat sits upon it.'* Tailor—"ls the Ladies' Sewing So ciety doing its usual kind of work?" Hostess—"lndeed. One-half the mem bers are not on speaking terms with the other half now."—Chicago Intsr-Ocean. "These are hard times," sighed the young collector of bills. "Every place 1 went to-day I wai requested to call again but one, anil that was whtn I dropped into see my girl."—Texas Siftings. His Parting Shot: He—"But couldn't you learn to love me, Ida?" She—"l don't think I could. George." He (reaching for his hat) —"It is as I feared I You are too old to learn !" Chicago Tribune. Murray Brown—"Aren't you posi tively ashamed to meet your creditors, Madison?'' Madison Gall—"I don't meet them. Do you suppose I would associate with such people I"—Kate Field's Washington. Mabel (to Frank, who has had to take Miss Weighty for a iow) —"Well, Frank, how did you like her?" Frank (wearily) —"I wasn't particularly pleased, but she made a great impression on the water."—Harvard Lampoon. Mr. Bronson—"Did you have an in teresting subject presented for your con sideration this morning at church?" Mrs. Bronson—"Very. But I couldn't make out whether the lace trimmings were real or imitation."—Chicago News. A dilapidated-looking individual who was among the unfortunates at tffi Cen tral Police Court yesterday, when asked by the Judge what he was, replied: "Well, yer Honor, I'm a gentleman, but I'm not workin' at it now."—Phila delphia Record. , Madge—"Poor Mr. Bentley was just taken home in a carriage; he had a dreadful shock." Arthur—"What was it?" Madge—"His wife made an ap pointment to meet him at a certr.in hour, and she was there right on the minjte." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. Dell—"Come on and we'll have a real good old-fashioned dinner after our shopping trip." Nell—"Yes; a sub stantial meal rests me so." Dell— "Waiter, bring a plate of macaroons and some very sour pickles, and—let me tee —yes, a pound of caramels."—lnter- Ocean. What simple people there are in tbe world, to be sure! There are the Plane leys for example. They went into An auction room the other day and sat spellbound for two hours. They thottgbt it wai an elocutionary entertainment, and ihey allowed it was the best they had ever heard, and they had listened to some of the best elocutionists in tbe city.—Boston Transcript.
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