SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W, M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. VIII.
It is said that the French govern
ment lias got to a pnss where it will
loon have to borrow largely.
Tho universities of Italy aro com
plained of for tho inferior grado of ed
ucation to which they allot diplomas.
It is predicted by tho Engineering
News that 14, 000 miles of railroad will
be built in this country during tho
present year.
There wero deposited at tho mint in
R ode Janeiro, Brazil, recontly, nearly
five wagon loads of silver plate that had
belonged to the cx-Empcror.
It appears that tho expedition sont to
Africa to observe tho total eclipso of tho
eun achieved a failuro after all, owing
to clouds that completely veiled the
faco of tho sun.
Secretary Proctor has ordered that
the field or union of tho National flag
in use in the army and navy shall con
sist, after July 4, 1890, of forty-two
itars in six rows of seven stars each in
a blue field.
Armless and legless Mary Goodwin
of Sugar Island, New Brunswick, is
dead. In her youth she developod a
fondness for sewing and became an ex
pert in the art, using, only bar mouth
for cutting her material, threading the
needle and doing all tho acts involved
in fine sewing. Sho was over 50 years
old.
English stoats and weasels are being
exported to Now Z-'aland from England
in large numbers to kill oil the rabbits,
and the rats, which liavo been food for
the stoats and weasels in England, are
increasing enormously in some districts.
There is talk of a movement to prevent
the exportation of any moro rat de
stroy cri.
Tho prevalence of drunkenness in
Russia has become so great as to attract
the attention of all Europe. The Gov
ernment refuses to take any active steps
toward checking the evil, owing, it is
alleged, to fear ot" losing tho revenue
from the manufacture and sale of alco
holic liquors. There liavo been 300
deaths in O-lossa alone during the past
year directly due to tho excessive use of
such intoxicants.
An old couple, perhaps the oldest in
the world, died not long siuco in the
village of Monastir, France. The man
was 135 and his wife 123 years. The
couple lived in a house which they had
built themselves exactly a century ago.
Adjoining the house was a little garden
plot which in process of tims has de
veloped into a wood with trees 90 and i
100 years old, trees which tho liusbaud
planted himself and constantly tendul
to the day of his death.
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of Pittsburg,
Penn., have instituded a series of ex
periments on a new process, which if
successful, will produce armor plates of
such strength as to render vessels
equipped with them shot-proof. The
process, according to the Philadelphia
Inquirer , is a secret one, but it is under
stood, while the plates are not rolled
from cold ingots, it is somewhat similar
to tho cold rolling process and will I
greatly strengthen the material. Tho
results of these experiments will be sent
to Washington, whero the plates will
be tested by tho government. If the
experiments arc successful tho patenteo
of tho process will be paid a royalty of
$25 per ton, the highest royalty ever
paid for any iron or steel process.
In forty counties in the S:ato of Illi
nois there are said to be over 4), 000
members of tho Farmers' Mutual Bene
fit and Co-operative Association. In
that Stato they aro erecting elevators j
and co-operativo stores. They are also •
extending their organization to all the I
States and aro forming new lodges or
assreiations very rapidly. They alrealy i
reach and cover more than ten States.
This association, tho Dry-go d Chronicle
thinks, is likely to become one of tho
most powerful agricultural FOC etios in
this country, if not in tha world, and
one which will havo much influence in
directing transportation of products by
railway and In tho purchasing of goods
in large quantities from both, fir-t and I
second hands. Probably it will also ex- '
ert great influencs in shaping legislu- ■
tion with regar I to railways. It is j
Virtually a new name, with new feat- j
urea added, for the gianger lodges, j
•hie* were so widespread n few year» '
toe. '
audi. No Matter.
D»p witbnrtae wootfcn boraet
Of a vaie i strnved.' one ay,
Drawn on",By THO.Mfeetsit
Wafted through its shady wa''
•'Chatter,
And no malt#r,"
Was tiic song it seemed to say.
As I wandered, grew the music
Yet ruoro clear and sweet to ma
Till X found a bubbling brooklet
Gliding onward to the sea;
"Chatter, chatter,
And no matter,"
Gliding onward, fresh and fre
In a pool its waters tarried,
Silent, by a mossy bank,
Where the weeping willows drooping
Singing rose and dipping sank;
"Chatter, chatter,
And 110 matter,"
Breeze-kissed branches rose and sank.
Standing on its brim I pondered,
Dreaming on its perfect glass,
Till I seemed to see beside me,
Gazingdown, a joyous lass;
"Chatter, chatter,
And no matter,"
With the pool her looking glass.
Then the years seemed swiftly fleeting,
Once again, but aged, stood
The woman now, a-looking backward,
Thinking of her maidenhood;
"Chatter, chatter,
And 110 matter,"
In her long passed maidenhooc
Far out from the wooded valley.
Then I journeyed to the sea,
Where I heard the tides a-beatin;;
Crooning now a song to me;
"Beating, Beating,
Time a-fleeting,
From the brooklet to the sea.
ll*. M. Jlazeltine, in Yankee Blade.
Aii Extraordinary Discovery
"When I was a youngster and asked
my father for money ho used to tell mo
that money didn't grow on bushes, and
until the summer of 1881 I belioved
him," said a well-known resident of
Belleville, -whoso pretty cottage over
looks the placid Passaic. "I changed
my mind in that year, however, upon
discovering, to my extreme satisfaction,
that 'at least on one occasion money
could be picked from bushes with as
much ease as I could pick ripe rasp
berries. It ♦■T.i on the Fourth of July,
and on that day the woodcock season
opened. 1 was out early with my setter
Belle, and we crossed the river to pick
up some birds that I had located in the
little strip of alders a short distanca
above the Jersey City water works. It
was a dry season, and the birds were
thick along tho river, having been
driven there by lack of moisture along
tho mountain brooks and iu tho woods.
"I had killed four birds, when Belle
came toward me with a. $lO bill in her
mouth. You may imagine my surprise.
I took the bill from the intelligent
brute, examined it, and found it moist
with dew but perfectly good and
whole.
41 'You know a good thing when you
see it, Belle,' I said. 'Go and see if
there is any more liko it there,' and she
started cII at a brisk trot. I watched
her and saw her spring up and pluck
something from a bush in the thicket.
A moment later she was at my feet with
a S2O note in lier mouth, holding it as
tenderly as she would a bird. I was
utterly astonished, and plunged wildly
into tho thicket, regardless of the cat
briers and other thorn? which cl ung to
me liko the hands of a drowning man.
I had not gone 25 feet before I saw a
$lO bill impaled on a thorn of a wild
app'o tree and just ahead was another
sprout decorated like a Christmas tree,
with bills on every thorn.
"I went right to work gathering in
the fruit. There were tens, twenties,
fifties and hundreds twisted around tho
twigs, stuck on thorns, or crowded in
to the crotches of limbs. Sevora! bills
wero scattered over tho ground near by,
and while I was gathering thcin Bello
brought in a ten and a twenty from
some distance ahead. I heard a gun
shot some distance behind me, and it
spurred mo onto extraordinary indus
try while the money market was easy.
I plunged ahead, picking bills from
tho bushes as 1 went along and shoving
them into tho pocket of my shooting
coat. I came across two moro little
trees trimmed with greenbacks, and
then located a regular savings bank
lost in the woods. It was a big black
locust, with a trunk ten inches in di
ameter, completely coverod with bunch
es of cruel thorns down to within a
foot of tie ground. Tho thorns wero
plasterod all over with bills, many of
which were stained with blood from
the fingers of tho person who placed
them thero. I beliovo I pickod up
SIBOO from this tree, and not a bill
w as less thana fire.
LAPOKTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
"Down near, tho foot of the tree was
a fluttering strip of blue silk, evidently
the hem of a,woman's drosp. Up to
this moment I had been too busy to
think, but this rag sot • me to wonder
ing. How on.oarth could a woman get
into that, thicket, I thought, and get
ting down on my knees I found the
prints of narrow, sharp-heeled shoes in
the moss-covered turf. It was a woman
sure, and after securing the last note iu
sight I followed tho trail, picking from
tho bushes on either side of the way an
occasional bill. A hundred yards from
tho locust tree, the track led to the
edge of tho river between two water
willows, and in tho soft mud for several
feot from tho shoro I could soo foot
prints leading out towards the channel.
I went back through tho willows and
assured myself that tho tracks wero not
doubled, and then I walked up and
down the river's edge for a quarter of a
mile hunting for further traces of the
feminine boots. Thero were none, and,
conluding that tho wearer must have
committed suicide, I returned to tho
willows and began a search thero. 1
walked out in the tracks as far as my
hip boots would permit me togo, and
much further than I could sco bottom
in tho dirty water. Then I was satisfied
that whoever sho was sho had drowned
herself after disposingjof her wealth.
I rcturnod to the locust then, and tak
ing up tho strip of sillc rolled it up
carefully, and put it in my vast pocket.
'•I was in no mind for shooting, and
was about to start fj>r lioma wheu 1
thought of Belle, and whistled for her.
She did not come, ami I moved on
through tho thicket. As I passed an
oponing I caught sightjof her stanchly
pointing, and walking' up flushed and
missed a woodcock. The bird circled
out over the river and plunged back to
tho thicket somewhere in tho neighbor
hood of tho willo-jvs. ' I was vexed at
missing tho bird, and determined to
get it if thero was a chance. So, send
ing Belle ahead, I pushed on toward
the willows, and was soon gratified to
see Bello point again. This time I
killpd the bird and sont Belle after it.
She retrieved tho deal bird beautifully,
and, dropping it at my feet, mado
another dash into tho brush, and a mo
ment later camo back with aa alligator
skin hand-bag, which sho hold in her
mouth until I took it. I opened it and
found it one-quarter full of money in
bills of a large denomination. Besides
the money thero was a small morocco
case containing a hypodermic syringe, a
small bottle labelled inorphino and con
taining a few grains of tho drug, a
pair of kid gloves, a button hook, and
a dream book. That was all. Not a
scraji of writing or anything to betray
the identity of tho owner of the bag
aud money. In returning toward the
road I plucked a pieco of a gray os
trich tip from tho branches of a tree
anil found a ladies' watch neatly bediod
in a boll of moss with the chain caro
fully coiled around it.l kept my eyes
open then nnd looked at every inch of
tho way, following tho footsteps care
fully and coming out on tho road with
out finding anything moro.
"I went straight home, carry ing the
bag in my hand, and when I got in my
bedroom 1 locked the door and began
to empty my pockets on tho bed. "When
tho last bill was in sight I arranged tho
bills according to their denomination
and began counting. Thero were thir
teen one-hundred-dollar notes, ono five
hundred, seventy-four fifties, eighty
twenties, fifty-three tons, and nineteen
fives, or $7725 in all.
'•Now 1 don't believe anybody will
bo surprised when I say that I kept that
money. 1 commenced spending it the
afternoon of tho day I got it. I put
SIOO in my pocket and went to New
ark, and as a natural consequence got
on a Fourth of July spree and did not
show up at homo until my money was
gone nnd I had borrowed 10 cents from
a friend. That was on tho morning of
the 7th, and I felt liko a fool. I made
up my mind then to tako care of ovory
remaining dollar. It was tho basis of
what I havo got now, and I think I
have doubled it twico sinco. I have
told this story to two or three persons
and I am not afraid to tell it to tho
world, provided my name is not used
and I don't get a hordo of beggars after
me.
•'lf anybody can establish owner
ship of tho monay I stand roady to pay
it over. My theory is that some drug
crazed creature from Now York got off
the train at Arlington and wandered up
tho river to the woodcock thicket an 1
then took another dose of morphine.
Then I think she wandered through the
brush in a state of exhilaration, and
finally brought up in tho river. Bhe
loft mo a fine legacy, and it is all owing
to old Bello there that I stumbled on
it. Sho shall havo tho best of every
thing as long as she draws breath.
The only thing that ever worried me
about the money was a superstitious
fear that it would bring mo no luck. I
haven't had an unluckly day since 1
found it, and it enabled me to leave
the bench and go into business for my
self, besides buying a mortgage on the
house lam living in, which I after
ward bought outright. Buying tho
mortgago looks liko going at it tho
wrong way, but I can assure you that I
enjoyed shaking it at my landlord and
threatning to foreclose it."— Neu> York
Sun.
A Monster Tree.
A correspondent from Minnesota
writes that a tamarack tree (larix Amer
icana) has lately been found which
measured seven feet eight inches in cir
cumference four feet abovo the ground,
and was estimated to bo 125 foot high,
tho largest cedar (thuja occidentalis)
observed by tho same correspondent,
measured ten feet four inches in cir
cumferenco at four feet above tho
ground, and was about seventy feet
high. Both these trees grow near a
brook of constant spring water, and in
alluvial soil, rather stony.
A monster elm tree stands on tho
Avery Durfee farm in Wayne County,
N. Y. Two feet abovo tho ground it
measures thirty-three feet ten inches in
circumference, and five foot abovo tho
ground twenty feet and ten inches. It
is sixty feot to tho first limb and tho
total amount of lumber in tho body
of tho treo is 16,250 foot.
Eighty years ago when tho farm was
cleared, this treo was left as a land
mark. It was then a giant among tho
surrounding forest trees.
A correspondent in Glenellen, Tenn.,
sends us tho following memorandum
with regard to a largo tulip treo recont
ly cut down oear that place. The small
est diameter across tho stump, three
feet from tho ground, was seventy-eight
inchos inside tho bark, which showed
CO4 layers of annual growth, with only
thirty-eight layers of sap wood occupy
ing a width of an inch and a half. Tho
diameter increased threo inches in tho
thirty years, beginning with tho 536 th
year of tho tree's ago, and six inches in
twenty-five years, beginning at a period
when the treo was oightoen inches in
diameter.
A Busy Preacher.
If there bo any busier man in New
York than Itev. Morgan Dix of Trinity
Corporation ho would, says a corre
spondent of tho Richmond (Va.) Dis
patch, do well to step up and be identi
fied. Besides attending to tho vast
routine business of the Trinity Corpora
tion, with its $20,000,000 invested,
preaching regularly, marrying people,
visiting tho aick and officiating over the
dead, ho is called upon by men and
women of every walk in life for advice
on all sorts of questions. No matter
how early you goto his office in tho
morning you will find adozen ortwenty
peoplo ahead of you. They all want to
sco the distinguished rector of old
Trinity in person and explain to
him their various schemes and trou
bles. The writer of this waited two
hours in his oflico the other day for an
opportunity to got a word with him on
a matter of private business. Iu per
sonal appearance, Dr. Dix is one of tho
most srriking men in New York, and
always attracts agrcat deal of attention.
Ho is a strong preacher, a deep thinker,
and his voice has lost none of tho charm
that mado him famous as a preacher.
Whilo not exactly tho fashionable
preacher, he is called upon by society
to ofliciato at weddings that aro un
usually profitable. llis personal in
como is enormous, nnd ho has a com
fortable fortune. 110 gives away a
great deal of money, and has helped j
moro young men to get on in tho world
than any preacher of the day.
Very Inopportune.
Sistor—You ought not to havo sung
that song about a hat last night just as
Mr. Smith was coming in, Tommy.
Tommy—That song, "Whcro did
you get that hat? 1 ' why I don't seo why
1 should not sing that. Most all tho
boys sing it now.
Sister—But it was very much out of
place. You ought to havo perceived
that Mr. Smith was wearing a silk hat
for the first tiuM-Jnst ovonintr.
Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months,
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
BIRDS AND BUGS FOB FLOWERS.
Flowers are fading as trimmings
for evening dressos and the fashion is
sotting toward birds and insects.
Flights of jet swallows are 10m fleeing
across the skirt of an evening dress.
Perhaps the bodice will be ornamented
with a swallow, too. Huge butterflies
made of jet, gold tinsel or of pearls and
iridescent beads, are mado large enough
to c mo right across the front of the
bodice of an evening dress. The wings
are outspread and tho butterflies are
said to be modelled from natural speci
mens. Smaller butterflies hover about
the shoulders and on tho skirt.— 2ieu>
York Telegram.
TIIE DRESSMAKER'S COMMISSION.
Tho fashionable dressmaker, it is
stnted, demands of tho rotail dry-goods
stores a percentugo on even the smallest
purchase. In ordor to allow this tho
merchant must raiso the price of nil his
goods as much beyond the regular re
tail price as is the amount of her per
centage. Bho frequently buys goods
for her customers and on those she
clears her percentage. But tho mer
chants' trouble does not end here.
Every excuse for changing goods pur
chased by customers, will be resorted
to, and as soon as a change is made an
allowance of percentago is demanded.
Some old merchants havo steadily re
sisted the demands of the dressmakers
to tax customers for their benefit, and
have been boycotted in effect in conse
quence. The merchant, in this case, is
a money loser, as thousands of dollars
of custom is thus turned away from his
door, but he is saved much petty an
noyance.—JS'eic York 7'ribune.
PECULIARITIES OF TIIE SEXES.
The professional funny men never
seem to woary of pointing out the littlo
peculiarities that distinguish the one
sex from the other. We are told that
although a woman's hand is more deli
cate than a man's, she can hang onto a
hotter plate; and thnt she will never
employ a button whoro she »mi uso a
pin, while a man won't uso a pin while
ho can tio himself up with a picco of
string. While there is no doubt just
as much truth as wit in these sayings,
if the paragraphors had considered the
garments of tho different sexes they
woul d havo found a hotter vehiclo for
marking distinctions.
When a woman puts on a new gown
it is one of the happiest days of her
life, while a man feels uncomfortable
until ho has grown used to his new
clothes. But this is not tho most pe
culiar thing about now clothes. When
a woman so garbs herself sho is brand
new from head to foot. She is a sym
phony in silk, or wool, or cotton, as
tho case may be.
A man is entirely different. Even
when ho puts on a full suit his hat or
his boots arc apt to be old enough to
spoil tho effect as a whole. When all
these things are brand new his cravat
will havo a frayed edge, or his gloves
be shabby with wear. A man with a
$lO silk hat on his head And a 6-sliil
ling gingham umbrella in his hand is
not an anomaly, but a woman who
robbed Peter to pay Paul in such a way
would havo her sisters in the streets all
twisting their necks off to stare after
her.— New York Sun.
THE WRAPPER HABIT.
It is tho easiest thing in tho world
for a girl to get in the habit of slip
ping on a wrapper in the morning, at
tending to whatever househould dultes
sho may have to perforin, and not real
ly dressing herself until sho wants to
go out or ihe middle of the day has
been reached. Thcro is a uso for the
wrapper, of course, but its uso isn't for
you to regard it as a something you
can "pitch on'' and bo untidy in.
Don't "pitch on" anything you wear.
Clothes have an effort in your habits as
well as your personal appearance, and
the girl who is willing to cat her break
fast in a loose, untidy wrapper will
soon think it no disgraco to leave her
hair up in papers an hour or so longer,
or, horror of horrors, go without wash
ing her face until later in tho day.
You do not believe you will ever come
to it.
Well, It's tho first stop that counts,
and just as soon as you conclude that
how you look before father doesn't
make any difference, just so soon aro
you in a fair way to fall into very un
tidy habits. Remember that the sim
plest of drosses neatly made and whole,
onlj takes a minute more to assume,
NO. 29.
and then you are ready to see, or ba
seen by anybody, and you are not so
much dressed that you cannot du9t the
little dainty belongings in the parlor or
dry tho silver and glass as it is so care
fully washed on tho breakfast table.
Keep the wrapper for your bedroom,
for the time when you arc a littlo tired
and alone, but do not under any cir
cumstances permit yourself to get info
the habit of wearing it through the
early morning hours when you want to
look as sweet and be as bright as that
sweetest of blossoms—tho morning
glory.—Ladies' Home Journal.
EVOLUTION OF MODERN BEAUTY.
All peoples agree that beauty lies in
health and proper vigorous proportion,
to speak roughly, says Elizabeth Bisland
in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and yet
women as fragile as thistle-down, und
consumed with a wasting disease, have
at times a beauty more potent than that
of the rosiest young maiden. Helen,
the daughter of the gods, was most
divinely tall and fair and Cleopatra was
"little and black," it is said, and king
doms were tlirowfi away for both of
them. There is one thing very certain:
The amount of feminine beauty in the
world has increased enormously sinco
the days of Holcn and the Serpent of
Old Nile. Men do not leave their
homes and fight ten year 3 for even tho
most radiant beauty today; nor do tho
great conquerors think the world well
lost for any modern smile.
In the days of Helen, and even of
Cleopatra, beauty was very probably
far more raro than now. Women, in
all but tho wealthiest clasjes, were illy
protected from the discomforts that de
stroy beauty and hardon and coarson
feminine loveliness. They did heavy,
manual labor, wero poorly fed or pro
tected from wind and weather, and,
like the peasants of many of tho Latin
nations today, while thoy may have had
a certain bcautc du diablo in tho first
flush of youth, tho radiance quickly
died and left them ugly servants and
beasts of burden. Therefore, when a
woman arose who possessed the truo
beauty that ago cannot wither nor cus
tom stale, men went mad after hor,
fought to possess her, and possessing
her thought the world but a bubble in
comparison. Selection of this sort was,
of course, constantly at work improv
ing the type, and tho survival of tho
fittest, ago by age, liftod up tho general
plane of beauty. As civilization
grow, women no longer trudged
with heavy burdens through
rain and blinding heat after nomad
husbands, and their feet grew delicate
and slightly arched. Tho richer wives
resigned tho coarser labors to their ser
vants, and used their fingers only to
spin delicato threads, to make rich
needlework, to knit, to thrum tho
strings of mandolin and lute, to curl
tho silken tresses of their infants and
smooth tho brows and bind tho wounds
of their lovers and warriors. Tho
palms grew, liko Desdcmona's, moist
and tender; tho nails, no longer broken
with coarse labor, gleamed liko th#
delicato, transparent nacre of a shell.
Tho skin, protected from the sun and
wind, grew fair and clear as roso leavos,
the lips ruddy and soft. Their hair,
carefully washed and tended, wound
itsolf into vine-like curls, and took the
smooth gleam of silk. Sufliciont food
gave rounded contours; long hours of
soft slumber sprinkled tho dew in tho
violets of their eyes, and tho move,
ments of dance and gay motion made
their limbs slender and supple, and at
last ted modern beauty was evolved.
FAPIIION NOTES.
Yokes and guimpes of velvot go with
velvet sleeves.
Large-flowered and small pompadour
flowered brocades aro umong the new
silks.
Feather boas and stoics and triple
capes of cloth will be much worn wMh
wool gowns.
Small bonnets ore worn on dressy
easions and in the evening, larger on
and hats for street wear.
Many of tho new silk petticoats are
trimmed with flots of ribbon and cas
cades and ruffles of laco.
Heliotrope velvet slippers, with pink
silk stockings, aro a new fancy of those
who liko that sort of thing.
Tartans, (Scotch colors in broad
stripes, and bordered robes are the
pronounced novelties in woolen stuff'.
Narrow sido panels of silk are some
times introduced in tho pleated or plain
sklits of wool, tartan or atripod gowns.