SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Rudyard Kipling says Americans do not know how to enjoy a good rest. "General Dryhenceforth" is what they are beginning to call the Government rainmaker. Tho Boston Cultivator observes that "vouny men are coining to the front in every department of business, in politics and in literature." The people of California are protest ing against the drop-a-nickle slot ma chines as lessening the supply of their smallest current coin. China Lias a secret society to which it is a capital crime to belong. That may be the reason, suggests the New York Telegram, why it has thirty millions of members. In addition to a rociing horse, the young King of Spain gets §750,000 a year as salary. It is a fat job for the fat little rascal, coram 3nts the Atlanta Constitution. The Army Gazette of Vienna an nounces an addition of 3600 men to the peace standing of the Austrian array. The measuro is commented upon as indicating that the E nperor of Austria is disposed to follow the policy of the German Emperor. Qeology predicts that in IS, 13(5 the earth will be coated and,„it might be said, vested with ice. The cheerful view to take of this, according to the San Francisco Examiner, is that then the cholera microbe will cease from troubling and the yellow fever germ be at rest. In the late Church Congress at Folke stone, England, one of the clergymen said that the clergy could only fully un derstand the wants of the workiag classes by living among them, living as they did, eating the same food, and sur rounded by the same influences and thi acquiring real sympathy and compassion for them. The Vermont State Board of Agricul ture reports that during 1891 there were sold in that State 1761 farms, of which 252 were of the class known as aban doned farms. Most of the purchasers of these farms, says the New York World, were, as was the case in Massachusetts, young men born in the State who be lieved that these farms properly liaudled would make better homes than could be secured in the Fai West, and bring in a fair living. The Cherokee Commission, which has just concluded an agreement with the Pawnee Indians for the cession to th United States of 283,000 acres of land, bears this emphatic testimony to the good influences of education among these people: "The Pawnee schools arc well attended, and the older and un educated Indians are manifesting an in terest therein, not common to Indians generally in that they defer to the judg ment ot their educated and English speaking young men. In our councils they would submit matters to their judgment and be guided by them." The Harrisburg Independent, says that the glory, lusciousuess, richness of flavor and solidness of the old varieties of Pennsylvania apples are becoming luxurious more in the memory of the oldest inhabitants than iu the appetizing enjoyment of the epicures of the present. The famous Rambs, Imperial, Golden Pippin, the delicious Koman Knight, rich in its cider-producing fragrant juices; the unrivalled Betleiiower, the odor of which perfumed the palate long after it was eaten; the mellow Smoke house that had poetic qualities iu its flesh, though its name was unsavory; the Greening, which retained its flavor during the entire winter, as did the Grindstone—all these were, anl arc still in degree®, peculiarly Pennsylvania apples, each of which had a taste peculiar to its variety, but they are be coming extinct. The report now going the round', in which it is staled that Northwestern New Mexico has been without rain for two years, that nearly one hundred thousand cattle have perished and that the water courses are dried up, is all a mistake, declares the New York World. As a matter of fact, the northwestern portion of New Mexico is one of the very best watered sections of the whole Rocky Mountain region. It is traversed by several rivers and is essentially a farm ing and fruit growing country. San Juan County last year produced 500,000 pounds of peaches, 250,000 pounds of apples and at least 100,000 pounds of other fruits. This is a good record when it is considered that the orchards are yet young. There are farms there which produced 500 tons of alfalfa hay. It has not infrequently happened that so great has been the rainfall that the roads between Junction City mid Aztec have been impassable. THE CHILD-OARDEN. In the child-garden buds and blows A blossom lovelier than the rose. If all the flowers of all the earth In one garden broke to birth. Not the fairest of the fair Could with this sweet bloom co:npars; Nor would all their shining be Peer to its lone bravery. Fairer than the rose, I say? Fairer than the sun-bright day In whose rays all glories show, All beauty is, all blossoms blow. What this blossom, fragrant, tender, That outbeams the rose's splendor- Purer is, more tinct with light Than the lily's flame of white? Of beauty hatlf this flower the whole — And its name—the Human Soul I While beside it deeply shine Blooms that take its light divine: The perilous sweet flower of Hope Here its hiding eyes doth ope, And Gentleness doth near uphold Its healing leaves and heart of gold; Here tender fingers push the seed Of Knowledge; pluck the poisonous weed. Here blossoms Joy one singing hour. And here of Love the immortal flower. —R. W. Gilder, in the Century. LOVE AND LUCRE, V AURA," said Mr. R Cyrus Merivale to jf bis wife, as he drew ' a close fitting pair of kid gloves over his large, fluffy fingers, "Jack Hoburton has uen P a y in P coiisid \jMji < v r n' ~V erable attention to **#o* our Catherine of late, and I shouldn't be surprised if something came of it." "I hope so," returned Mrs. Merivale, languidly, "for he has lots of money, people say." "Oh, Hoburton is a bright young man and will make his mark yet, there is no doubt about that, and he may be able to help us out of our mi&erable debt 3," said Mr. Merivale. The speaker went to the window and for some time stood contemplating the the landscape. "The painters havo been working on Robertson's house," said be, finally,"and everything looks brand new." "Yes," said Mrs. Merivale, "and it makes our place look simply wretched. You must borrow some money, Cyrus, and get things fixed up or we shall bo so cially ostracised." "I will see about it," said Morivale, in a dejected tone, "but I don't know where I can get any. I wish Kate and Jack were married; they might help to keep up appearances." The keeping up of appearances had been Mr. Mcrrivale's lifelong hobby. This and a tendency for risky specula tion had kept him poor, but ho livod in anticipation of future opulence and pos sessed the cordial sympathy of his wife, so things were not as bad as they might have been had the domestic tastes of the couple been less harmonious. AS their daughter Kate grew in years and stature she became so decidedly beautiful that the parents' hopes grad ually centered in her. She had many admirers, but Jack Hoburton was the favorite. Jack was a steady young man, good-looking, well-educated and the possessor of a nest egg that in the minds of Kate's worldly parents would be sure to hatch unbounded wealth. The parents were gracious and paved the way to an excellent understanding be tween the young people, so the next winter when Kate wont away to board ing school and Jack went to seek his fortune in the great West, matters were eminently satisfactory all around. "Yes," said Mr. Merivale to his daughter, "Jack Iloburton will make a model husband, one that will tend to elevate the family station. That's how it always should be. I would be very much pained to have you marry anyone poorer than ourselves." "Why, papa," said Kate in reply, "I am not going to marry Jack because he has a little money. I am going to marry him because I love him." "That's right," laughod her father, "but the money is a requisite that must not be despised, for without it love would be a very tame affair, indeed. If Jack were below you in worldly station there wou'.d be a grotesqueness about love that would soon destroy it. In marriage the social equilibrium sholild always be maintained." About two years after Jack's engage ment to Kate, and a year previous to the proposed celebration of the nuptials, Mr. Merivale startled the bosom of his family one day by suddenly entering their midst greatly frustrated and per spiring from every pore. He threw him self into a chair, and after prolonged silence that nearly frightened the mother and daughter out of their senses in formed them that at last "the goal was insight." "What goal?" they cried. "At last," said he, "we shall rise to our proper station. Henceforth we have no need to envy Robertson. The credi tors who have dogged me for the past ten years shall be relegated along with bills marked 'paid' back to their miserly level. In fine," he added, "we are rich." 4 "Explain, pray explain," they gasped. "It's the Arapahoe mine," said he. "Wo are worth a cool hundred thousand and people will think it a million." The news of Mr. Merivale's sudden acquisition of wealth spread rapidly and people exaggerated the reports, as he had anticipated. New friends sprung up on every side. Wherever Kate ap peared the was more than ever the centre of attraction. Mr. Merivale began to plan changes on a grand scale. A lot was purchased next to Robertson's and preparations were LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1893. • made for the erection of a magnificent j mansion. There were to be carriages, servants, gravelled walks, horses, dogs, fountains—in short, all the attributes of aristocracy. One day, after a long interview with his wife, Mr. Merivale summoned Kate. "I wish to talk with you about that fel low Hoburton," said he. "You do not suppose, now, that he will try to hold you to the engagement, do you?" he inquired, nervously. "What!" exclaimed the daughter, reddening; "do you mean that he should forsake me because we have been for tunate?'' "I mean," returned the father, more coolly, "that since our circumstances have materially changed wo should regu late ourselves accordingly. My principle is the same as I have always endeavored to inculcate. No one should ever marry below his or her station. Our station has risen and those who were once our social equals are n i longer so. Person ally, Hoburton is an estimable young fellow, but I must insist that the pro jected alliance be broken off at once." If Kate gave her fathor a look of scorn it was lost on him, for he continued without looking up: "You have always been a dutiful daughter, and I have im plicit confidence in your obeying my wishes. We have a social status to main tain. It would be 'flying in the face of Providence' to disregard the advantages which our altered circumstances present. This you would be doing were you to marry a poor mon." "Why, father," exclaimed the daugh ter, "Mr. Hoburton is by no means poor. He has, as you know, over SIO,OOO, and with the assistance that you might now afford he could easily add to it." "Ah," said her father, "you forget that while he has SIO,OOO, you will have ten times that. He is altogether too many rounds in the ladder below you, and the sooner he is informed of the change the better for all concerned. No, no," said he, interrupting her as she was about to continue the argument. "I can never consent to the marriage. I should commit a flagrant breach of duty were I to allow the equilibrium to be thus dis turbed. After you have thought the matter over candidly you will see that my position is the only one tenable." The daughter sat for some time after her father had left the room, over whelmed with grief at his proposition. She thought of Jack struggling along in the West to prepare lor her a home, and the idea of abandoning him just because her father had acquired wealth was not to be tolerated. Even if she had not loved htm so doarly she could not be so base. Sho wont to her room and poured forth her grief in an agony of tears. Finally she gathere I up sufficient courago to write to Jack, and in a wretchod tear-stained scrawl sho con fessed her lather's disapproval of tho marriage. While she was penning this letter, full of cndearmentß and protesta tions of constancy—constancy she de clared that would cnduro even if her father "should acquire ten millions"—the pa ternal Oroosus was seated in his private office, writing a letter of a contrary sentiment. Air. Merivale wroto two letters, one to Mr. John Hoburton, politely requesting the discontinuance of attentions to his daughter, the other to Mr. Joel C. Ho burton, President of the Arapahoe Min ing Company, Donvor, Col., stating that he would have the pleasure of calling upon this official the following week on business relating to bis raining interests. Mr. Morivalc arrived in Donvor on a Thuisday afternoon aud took apartments at a hotel. Early in the evening, while inspecting his person in the mirror after the com pletion of a caroful toilot, ho was startled by a knock upon the door. He opened it and stepped back in unfeigned aston ishment, for who should bo stauding there but bis once presumtive son-in law, young Jack Hoburton. "I saw your name in the register," said Jack, "and have taken tho liberty to seek an interview." "Step in," said Mr. Merivale, rnd with cool pomposity he waved him to a chair. "Now," said ho, as he seated himself, "my time is precious. I suppose you wish to confer concerning your unfor tunate relationship with my daughter, but upon that point I have nothing more to say than what I expressed in my let ter. I have duties to perform as a parent that you doubtless understand, and I hope you will not dwell upon a point that must necessarily be painful to us both." "I did call for the purpose you sug gest," said Jack, "for I hoped that after all the circumstances were made known you might possibly not bo so muoh op posed to our union. In the first place, you know, Kate and I love each other, and in the second place, I have acquired sufficient property to maintain a wife." "Yes, yes, all that istruo, no doubt," broke out Mr. Merivale, " but •suffi cient' is only a relative word. My daughter's prospects are nol what they were. I believe I made you aware of that in my letter, did I not!" "Yes," replied the young man, con tinuing his argumentative manner, "but my prospects are good. I have made some money and what I have is safely Invested." A frown settled over Mr. Morivale's brow, and he rose and walked rapidly up and down the room. "The subject annoys me," said ho, "and 1 must beg you to close this interview. I have al ways considered you a promising young man, and if things were different I w*uld say, marry my daughter and re ceive my blessing, but as it is, never, and I must ask that the matter end here." He opened the door and Jack took leave, the perfect picture of a broken spirited youth. When well into the hall, however, be broke into an uproarious fit of laughter. The next morning, on repairing to the office of the Arapahoe Mining Company, Mr. Merivale found the Presidont absent and took u seat in the receptioa room. After he had waited for some time the door suddenly opened and Jack Hobor ton entered. Mr. Merivale rose to his feet with an angry scowl. "Young man,"he blurted out, "I cannot, have you follow ing me about like this. What do you mean ?" The office boy stood staring at the two men with eyes and mouth wide open with astonishment. At a motion from Mr. Hoburton he disappeared into a side room, where he 9at for some time with eye and ear alternately at the keyhole. '•Mr. Merivale," said Hoburton, "you are laboring under a mistake; this is my place of business. I had no intention of following you, although, to be sure, 1 expected to meet you here in accordance with your letter ot last week. Here it is now," said he, picking out a bit of correspondence from a pigeon-hole. "D-do you mean to say that you are Joel O. Hoburton, President of the Arapahoe Mining Company!" cried Mr. Merivale. "Why, yes," replied Mr. Hoburton: "I am that individual. People back East refused to call me anything but Jack, and as thai, seemed to be an im provement on my rig&t name I let it go at that." "And you must bo rich, then?" in quired Mr. Merivale, rather red in the face. "1 have been quite fortunate," re plied Mr. Hoburton, "fori own the con trolling interest in the Arapahoe mine, as you may learn on investigation; but things can be evened up on the score. ] love your daughter, and if you will give us your blessing I shall try to maintain the family station." Though somewhat chagrined, Mr. Merivale made no further opposition and the nuptials were'finally celebrated amid all the pomp and dignity apposite to such an occasion. llouae Plants and Health. An interesting experiment was recently performed at Harvard University, says the Boston Herald, for the purpose of finding out just how much carbonic acid is exhaled by plants at night. A num ber of plants were put into a glass case irom which all air was excluded «xcept such as bad first passed through a chemi cal which freed it from all traces of car bonic acid. A constant stream of purified air was made to flow among the plants all night, and pass out through another chemical which absorbed what carbonic acid the air had taken from the plants. By testing the second chemical it wa9 easy to find how much catbonic acid had been discharged by the plants during tho night. It was found that the amount was much less than had been supposed. The quantity of gas given oil by a room full of plants is actually less than would bo 'j_nert»ted by a can dle burning tho same length of time. It is proved then that so far as car bonio acid is concerned, plant«, instead of being harmful, are on the wholo bene ficial, since during the day they holp to purify tho air by absorbing from it tho carbonic acid which is so harmful to people. In regard to the kind of plants, though, a little care should be used, especially if any person in the house is very susceptible to odors. Heavily sceutod flowers in a sleeping room aro apt to cause headache and sleeplessness, and to a sick person a strong odor is sure to bo disagreeable. Aside from this con sideration, house plants are desirable wherever they will thrive. Onr Degenerate Littlo Toe. Tho wholo history of tho organism boars testimony to the marvelous per sistence of parts in spito of contumely and disuse. Take, for example, the pres ont position of the littlo toe in man. We know not the condition of this digit in prohlstoric man, and have but little in formation as to its state among savage tribes at tho present day, but we do know that in civilized peoples, whose feet are from infancy subjected to con ditions of restraint, it is an imperfect organ— "of every function shorn Except to act as a basis for a corn." In one per cent, of adults the second und third joints lia\e anchylosed, in three per cent, the joint between them is rudimentary, with scarcely a trace of a cavity, in twenty per cent, of feet the organ has lost one or more of its normal complemont of muscles. But though shorn of some of its elements, and with others as mere shreus, the toe persists, and ho would be a bold prophet who would venture to forecast how many generations of booted ancestry would suffice to eliminate it from the organiza tion of the uormal man.—Popular Sci ence Monthly. Core of Street Trees. Street trees sometimes need pruning. If, however, they have been originally well selected a small knife will be all that is necessary for a few year) to re move an occasional branch that starts oat in the wrong place. There is rarely any necessity of cutting off a large limb. Is this necessity ever does come the limb should be cut off close to the trunk and the place smoothed over and painted, so that the wound will be ultimately covered with healthy bark. We have often explained that wherever a stub is left this must inevitably die, and as the trunk grows about it there will be a plug of rotted wood where the branch originally grew, and the disease will eat inward aud downward as the water soaks in from without. After street trees have attained mature size pruning is rardy needed beyond the occasional cutting away of a dead branch or the re moval of one which interferes with an other.—Qarden and Forest. A Talking Watch. M. Sivan, a Geneva watchmaker, has informed the Society of Arts of this town that he has forwarded to Berne, with the object of taking out a patent, a sample of a repeater watch which speaks the hours and the quarters instead of striking. The mechanism of this watch is an ingenious adap ' "•> of the phon ograph.—he Tribune u vteneve. UNCLE SAM'S STAR GAZERS WONDERS TO BE SHOWN AT THE WORLD'S PAIR. A Gigantic Image ot the Son—Spi ders' Webs ior Telescopes— Sup plying a Nation With Time. S~~y OVERNMENT star gazers, says I f a Washington letter to the Bos ton Transcript, have been hav ing a great time moving into the new National Observatory, which is the most beautiful building for astro nomical purposes in the world, situated on the heights overlooking Washington from the northwest. Naturally, the transfer from one place to another of in struments so delicate that a finger must not ordinarily be allowed to touch them, lest their adjustment be spoiled, is at tended with no small difficulty. But the article which required the greatest care in its removal was the object lens of the famous Equatorial telescope. Until the lenses for the Lick Observatory in California were made, this was the largest one in America, being inches in diameter. It cost $30,000. This precious thing was wrapped in the soft est of old linen sheets, packed in a box between mattresses, and conveyed in a sprng wagon at a funeral pace over four miles of road uphill and down, reaching its destinaticn safely. The new obser vatory will have eight telescopes, two of which the public will be permitted to use for amusement, one of these having a five-inch and the other a glass. The exhibit of the Naval Observatory at the World's Fair will include a five inch telescope, through which visitors to tho exposition will be allowed to gazo at whatever is most interesting iu the heavens both by night and by day. It is also intended to shoiv a picture of the sun on a large scale, a pencil of rays be ing thrown through a lens by a mirror forty feet into a dark room. In this camera obscura a huge image of the orb of day will appear on a screen, showing the tremendous flames which leap 7000 miles above its surfaca, and also the so called "spots," which are fiery chasms capable of swallowing up hundreds of such planets as the earth at a gulp. At naon each day the astronomers iu Wash ington will drop a time ball five feet iu diameter on tcp of the main building at the fair. The astronomers of tho Naval Ob servatory have looked all over the world for spiders' webs. Such gossamer fila ments spun by industrious arachnids are utilized in telescopes for cross-lines ex tended at right angles with each other across the field of view, so as to divide the latter into mathematical spaces. Threads of cobweb are employed for the purpose because they arc wonderfully strong for their flnene«, and also for the reason that they arc not affected by moisture or temperature, neither expanding norcontracting under any conditions. Specimens were ob tained from China, because it was im agined that the largo spiders of that country would perhaps produce u parti cularly excellent quality of web. How ever, it was found that the best web is spun by spiders of the United States, such as are plentiful iu the neighbor hood of W ashtngtou. Accordingly, ex peditions are made early in June each year, to get from the fences r.ud tarns hereabout the cocoons of the big "turtle back" spiders. Each coc ion is composed of a single silken filament wound round and round,though there are apt to be some breaks in it where Mistress Spider left off work for a time. Attempts have been made to use the cocoons of spiders like those of silkworms, and exquisite fabrics have been manufactured from them. Uufortuuately it was found im possible to make the industry a commer cial success, owing to the combative in clination ot these creatures. When kept together they will always gobble eac ; i other up iu a short time, the final result being a single very large and fat spider aud one cocoon. The five-foot time-ball to be dropped at the World's Pair will be made of can vas on a steel fra ue. It will be wound up each day to the height from which it is to fall, and it will bo set and electri cally connected iu such a manner that the breaking of tho circuit at 12 noon will release it. Tue touch of a button at Washington will instantaneously transmit notice of the hour over 350,000 miles of wire. Wucn the button speaks the whole country will listen, and the hand of 70,000 elecric clocks all over the United States will point to the cor rect minute and second. Treatment of Coffee. Guatemalans believe there is no better coffee than that raised on their own plantations, and Central America ha< of late years acquired a high reputation in the markets of the world. It is us ual for wealthy Ouatamalans to make sure of good coffee in traveling by tak ing along a store of their own. A long glass tube, sevoral inches in diameter, but tapering to a funnel at one end, is filled with ground coffee, aud through the mass is poured cold water. A strong solution of coffee slowly drips from the narrow end ot the tube, and this liquid iB carefully put up in air-tight vessels, to be warmed up iu small quantities and drunk on the journey.—New York Wit ness. Bed of l'eat in Cauuda. There is an enormous bed of peat on a Canadian island in the Bay of St. Law rence, and the people of that part of the world are beginning to use it as fuel. It has ooe peculiarity, however, which cost the discovers something to find out. When cut and heaped in large masses it undergoes a process of fermentation which heats it often to the point of spontaneous combustion. When it takes fire the whole interior of the mass seem? to become aglow at once, and no water can put it our. if d r j e< j ; n B i n gi e blocks or very Nihil piles no phenome non of this kind is noticed, *nd as a fuel is liitle inferior to coal.—Boston Tran •cript. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 81-25 after Three Moathe. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A new belt of natural gaa has been struck in Ohio. I In Europe there are rather more than 100 women to 100 men. The death rate in this country from tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the decrease. The apple contains a larger percent age of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. Out of a total of 513 known specie 9 of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to be found in no other country. A 2000 horse-power electric locomo tive has just been finished at Baden, Turich. It is the largest in the world. Over the whole world the proportion of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa rate parts of the world it varies greatly. An Englishman has invented a new system of electric mains whereby one wire of the present three-wire system can be saved. An Austrian engineer proposes to carry passengers from Vienna to Pesth, Hun gary, by an electric locomotive at the rate of 123 milee an hour. The Victoria Railroad Bridge over tho St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is two miles long, cost over $5,000,000, and contains 10,500 tons of iron and 3,000,000 cubic feet of masonry. An electrically controlled machine which will effectively stamp 30,000 let ters in an hour is one of the interesting inventions thai has been adopted in the United States Postoftice Department. Th united capacity of all the plants now in operation in the world for re lining copper by electrolysil amounts to nearly one hundred tons of copper de posited per day of twenty-four hours. Many years since, apple* were packed In barrels from which lime had just been emptied. On opening theru in spring, they were nearly all sound, while the same variety not thus packed was bs.dly rotted. H. Devaux has been making experi ments with the sense of taste in ants, in course of which he found that while fond of sugar they dislike saccharin, and even refused sugar when mixed with saccharin. Dr. Murray, of tho Royal Society of Edinburgh, estimates tho mean height of the land of the globe to be 1900 feet above sea level. Humboldt's estimate placed the same level at only 1000 feet above high water mark. By the transfusion of artificial or chem ical blood in her veins the lifo of Mrs. Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N. Y., has been saved. She had been very ill for a long while and was apparently about to breathe her last. What is claimed;,? be the largest wire nail machine ever built in the United States was finished recently by a Green point (N. Y.) firm, and shipped to a nail concern at Everett, State of Washington. The total weight of the machine was 12 J tons, and it is capable of making nails weighing a half-pound each at the rate of one a second. Nails of any desired length can, however, bo manufactured by simply adjusting the fped. A comparative estimate, made by an English engineer, as to the cost of train lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in dicates that oil varies from one to two cents per lamp per hour, compresse 1 gas costs one cent per lamp per hour and electricity one-half cent per lamp pei hour, while the cost of plant was about five per cent, less for electricity than foi gas. This will be a welcome piece of news to railroad companies. The su periority of the electric light in giving more uniform illumination and not foul ing the air commends it, irrespective of any question of expense. The Stormy Petrel's Endurance. During q recent trip across the At lantic the passengers on one steamer bad a vivid illustration of the endurance ol the stormy petrel. Shortly after the ship left the Irish coast two or three of these birds were sighted at the stern of the ship. One had been caught at some previous time, and its captor tied a bit of red flannel or ribbon round its neck and let it go. The bit of red made the bird very conspicuous, and it could be easily identified. That bird, with others that could not be so easily distinguished, followed the ship clear across the oceau. Rarely, during the day time at least, was it out of sight, and if for an hour or two it was lost to view while feeding ou the refuse cast overboard, it soon reap peared, and the last seen of it wa9 with in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it disappeared, perhaps to follow some outward-bound steamer back to Ireland. When the fact is considered that the ship, day and night, went at an average speed of nearly twenty miles an hour, the feat performed by the daring traveler can be better appreciated. When or how it rested is inexplicable.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Strange Canyon. George W. Dunn, the veteran natur alist of California, has returned to San Francisco from a strange canyon in the Tantillas Mountains. Lower California, where he went recently to secure some rare plants, nolanas and seeds of the blue palm. He says that the canyon has never to his knowledge before been explored by white men, and that its declivities are altogether more rough and frightful than any he has seen on the Pacific coast, though he has traveled much. About two thousand Cocopah Indians were there gathering the fruit of the palms and pine nuts. They reached it, aa did Mr. Dunn, by going down the almost perpendicular 6ides of the Tantillas Range. The drop is 5240 feet in three miles. Dead Indian ponies and horse skeletons lined the way. The formation from the bottom of the terrible canyon to the saw-toothed backbone is clean and , pure granite. Along the canyon is n tumbling cascade of pure mountain water, and on either side for miles are groves ol the pretty blue palm.—Boston Transcript. ' NO. 17. ■WHICH WAS RIGHT? ' A small, dear brook set out one day | To search (or the dark blue sea; It babbled and sparkled. It rippled and aang, And cried, "Just look at me; For I have started, dear neighbors and friends, To find my father, the Sea I" "Oh dear little brook!" nrged the mossy bank, I As the stream slipped singing: by— "l beg you most earnestly give it up; i If you'll wait, I will tell you why V But the brook would not listen, and ran away Beneath the smiling sky. "Ob, where are you going, you gurgling brookr Asked a pollard-willow tree. Which leaned where the brook formed a limpid pool, Its tresses green to see— 'l'm going, dear madam," san; the brook, 'To And mv father, the Sea." "O dear, small brook 112 cried its pollard friend, "Great danger will meet you this day; There's an awful thing which will swallow you up Before you go half the way r "I don't believe it," rippled the brook, "I'm going, for all you say I" And the brook and the pollard both were right, As you will presently see; For a great dark river hurried along, And swallowei the brook, and its merry song; And carried it off to Sea. —Annie L. Hannah. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A yard stick—The clothes pole. Never too old to learn—The ancient classics. Measuring a vessel's speed is a knotty problem.—Boston Courier. Tho monetary question—Can you set tle that bill to-day?—Omaha Wold- Herald. The trouble with the lynx eyed de tective is that he sometimes drops some of the links.—Puck. She—"How do you pronounce C-h-i --c-a-g-o?" He (of St. Louis)—" Guilty." —Detroit Free Press. A girl gives her lover a mitten, we suppose, because a pair is out of the question—Binghamton Leader. Macy a man who couldn't train a de cent dog properly confidently undertakes the training of a child.—Puck. There are a good many successful lion fighters who will run at the sight of a hornet.—lndianapolis Ram's Horn. The woman with the new sealskin sacque is just as anxious for cold weather as the plumber.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Ahj very fair, indeed, is she, This maiden fair by me adored!— But it's very plain to me She's dearer than 1 can afford. —Puck. When a lady "condescends" to dc something, she can only preserve hei self-respect by doing it very badly.— Puck. Inquisitive people are reminded that the chap who "pumps" the organ isn't the one who brings out the music.— Truth. Many unkind things are said of the telephone, but one of its redeeming fea tures is that you can't lend monev through it.—Philadelphia Record. "Sure, Pat, the wather's terrible close to the idge o' the boat!" "Yis; an' if the toide rises six inches more we'll both be drooned."—Yale Record. "It's all very well," said the grave digger, "to advise a young man to begin at the bottom, and work up, but in my business it ain't practicable."—Life. Binks—"l read a curious article, the other day, advocating a tax on beauty." Jinks—"Good idea. They won't have much trouble in collecting it."—Quips. "A joke's a joke," the horse thief said hen they led him 'neath the tree; "But you fellers seem in dead earnest. While you're a-stringing me." —Puck. An Irishman has written a strong ar ticle in favor of cremation, and says thai cremation has one great advantage; il will prevent "dead" people from being buried alive.—Truth. Orr_E. Eutle—"l hear that Ned Bird say has given up his bachelor apart ment." Marlboro—"Yes, he hat changed his bachelor quarters for a bet ter half."—Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Snaggs (as she removes hei wraps)—"l had a lovely time at the dif ferent stores this afternoon." Snaggs— "There you go talking shop again?"— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Dumsquizzle—"Young Timberwheel has a suit of clothes for every day in the week." Skimgullet—"l never see him wear but one." Dumsquizzle—"Yes, that's the suit."—Brooklyn Life. Tug Captain—"Boss, the boat's work in' very badly now, an' we ought to do semethin' about it." Tug Owner— "She won't work, eh? Well, then, dock her, see?"— Philadelphia Record. The military man was once A hero to us all. The football player now it is Whose carnage we recall. —Washington Star. Dukane—"Speaking of storms, I once saw hailstones as large—" Gaswell (in terrupting with a sneer) —"Chestnuts!" Dukane—"Ob, bigger than thatl As large as horse-chestnuts."—Pittsburg Chronicle. Mrs. Shyster de Puyster— "Rensselaer, that Miss Westlands you pay such assid uous attentions to betrays anything but a refined training." Rensselaer— "Ah, mother, she it a rough diamond!'' Mrs. Shyster de Puyster—"Then you ought to cut her."—The Jewelers' Circular. In the State of Maine the yield of po tatoes varied greatly —from fifty bushels per acre in the older portions of the State to 250 in the fertile Aroostook region.
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