SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W, M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIII. A whaling captain who has been up among the Eskimos says tHat all the chil dren are now taught to speak English as soon as they can talk. j; The American Dairyman asserts that no organizations in the United States have multiplied more rapidly in the past ten years than the sick-benefit, funeral' aid, death-benefit and other kindred societies. 1 An official report shows that there arc 283 Indian schools in the Dominion of Canada. Of this number 84 are man aged by the Church of England, 80 Roman Catholic, 33 Methodist, 10 Pres byterian and 6 undenominational. A numismatist suggests that a certain coin—say the fifty-cent pieces—issued during any administration be stamped with the head of the President of that date. They will thus serve as an aid to history, as do the coins of ancient days. Von Moltke, whom the Atlanta Comti tution calls the greatest soldier in Europe, nays that the long-predicted war is bound to come. He thinks that it will be a war of the masses against the classes. If such a war comes, it will be short, cruel and bloody. Northern lumbermen are picking up all the Southern timber land they can get, as they figure out a general advance in Southern timber within a few years. Heavy shipments of Southern hardwoods are being made into Michigan aud other Northern State's. An anti-gambling league is announced as forming in England, the Earl of Aber deen to be the first President. The qualifications for membership will be an agreement for the annual payment of a shilling and the signing of a pledge "to Abstain from betting." A Pennsylvanian drove a lot of boys who were teasing his mule out of his field. He then returned to condole with the mule, when the animal kicked him once, killing him instantly. "Grati tude," sagely comments the Chicago Herald, "is not the mule's redeeming trait." The farmers of Ottawa and Cloud Counties, Kansas, have adopted resolu tions asking the Government to lend them money at two and u half per cent, to the amount of one-half the value of their farms, and declaring that if this re quest is not granted they will pay no taxes or interest after December 1, 1890. A Hoosier maiden sued Charles John son for breach of promise. Charles acknowledged the engagement, but proved that he broke it only after seeing the plaintiff knock her father down be cause he asked her not togo barefooted around the house. The v jury were only five minutes returuiug a verdict in his favor. The New York Times observes tliat the old fashion of working out the road tax has become a mere farce in most rural re gions. The only rational plan is to have highways made and repaired by contract under the supervision and after the plans of a competent engineer. The taxes paid for this purpose will be far more than repaid to every farmer by the im provements to the roads. Some strange judicial proceedings are reported from Queensland, Australia. The presiding judge was in a hurry to get away, and tried cases continuously for thirty-six hours. At one stage all the available jurors were occupied consider ing verdicts, and, not to lose time, the judge ordered the doors of the court 100m to be locked, and then impounded every person in the audience qualified to serve. Many of the jurors were so ex hausted by continuous service that they fell asleep in their seats, but the trials ■went on. General Verdy Duvernois, the German Minister of War and one of the ablest of the younger Generals of the German army, is, as his name implies, of French descent. He is descended from a Hu guenot family expelled from France by Louis XlV. 's revocation of the edict of Nantes. It is a striking example of the folly of religious and political proscrip tions, remarks tht Chicago Herald, that the descendant of one of the French exiles should be the man destined to pre pare the plans for the next German in vasion of France. It is also singular that two of the foremost men in the German army to-day should be of foreign birth. Von Caprivi comes of *n Italian fcunily. TO-DAY. You ask we why my face is bright To-dnyf I What can put my gloom to flight To-dnyf Why is my heart so free from care? Why <io I tread as if oii Air? Ob, mother mine, the earth is fair— To-day. Three little words have made me glad. To-day. Nothing in life ran make me sad To-day. Place your dear hands upon my head, Bless me and kiss me. Grief has fled. My darling loves me—so he said. To-day, —iirar*!/ 112. G'oddev, in Be]ford's Magazine. SPRIGGSS INVENTIONS. •'Spriggs islo work no* on something fur weavin' silk, they say," remarked Jim Bates, us ! ie cut a fresh quid of to bacco. "That's the tenth machine he's invented that I can think of, to say noth in' of the cyclometer and hoss-rake that didn't work, an' the wagon-jack most of us -was fools enough to lend him money on. I hain't had any faith in inventions since then, ] can tell you," " 'Twas that trick of flying up an' hit ting you in the fac:; as soon as it got out of order killed that," reflected the store keeper, "He'd ought to l>e'n made to pay damages fur putting 'ho thin;.- on market. An' that powder*:md-shot rat' trap that tired off into Charlie Smith's leg when he forgot it and went into the but'ry in the dark was jest as bad. They can talk aoout 'Spriggs's inventivene it's my opinion a man that'll spend his time lur twenty years piitterin' over things that never bring him in r. cent ain't any more or less than a crank." | "That's so," assented several in the crowd, recollections of the various times when they, too, had been victims of "Spriggs's inventiveness," lending em phasis to their words. But old, blear eyed Jerry Tolles, seated in the farthest corner of the store, roused up to shake his head with a confidence that all the defective wagon-jacks and rat-traps in the world could not unsettle. He be lieved in the inventions. He always had believed in them since the days when he was hired man for John Spriggs's father, and John himself played truant from school to stay all day in the shop and study out wonderful contrivances of wood and wire. He had been hit in the face With the wagon-jack, and cut with the can-opener, and "kicked" with the new kind of gun; he had given ten dol lars for John's rat-trap, and used the alarm clock till it burst; but his faith in their final success never wavered. "The boy'll mount to somcthin' yit," he mut tered, teeliug in his pocket for the old clay pipe. "He'll make his way iu the world." "If he does 'twill be Polly that pints it out for him." grunted Jim Bates. Polly was John Sprigg's daughter, and, in the vernacular of the village, "had common sen e fur her an' him both." Scrogsvillc was proud of Polly. Not only was she the handsomest girl around, the smartest and the best cook, but she was city educated. At least she had spent six months at the home of her un cle in New York, and that amounted to the some thing There had been fabulous stories of Polly's success in society duvlng that stay in the metropolis; and though some of the more skeptical in Scrogsvillc affected disbelief cn the subject of her being introduced to the Mayor and par ticipating in the Charity ball, it was the recollection of the season in New York, even more than her black eyes and stirring ways, that inspired the neighbors with pride an admiration. "If it wasn't for her father's being what he is, and every dollar she earns going to help him along, I wouldn't say a word against Charlie's taking such a fancy to her" declared Mrs. Smith that evening, when her husband recounted the conversation at the store. "But whoever marries her will have to mary him, too; an', the way things are—" and the good woman ended her sentence with a sigh, and firmly resolved not to have Polly stay at her house again, even if she never had any sewing done. Mrs. Smith was not the only careful mother who had deemed it prudent to resort to this ex treme measure; and it is highly probably she would have held to the resolu tion had it rot been for the unexpected arrival, one washing-day afternoon, a few weeks later, of Mrs. Latham and Mrs. Latham's little girl. Mrs. Latham was Mrs. Smith's cousin, and lived in the city. Her husband was foreman in u shop, and Mrs. Smith had planned to have baked chickeu and cream pies, aud the front parlor open every day, when they came to visit her. No wonder that now, with both visitors to entertain—Daniel coming on a later train—and cake and biscuit to be baked for tea, Mrs. Smith forgot her fear lest "Charlie should make tt fool of himself," and sent down for Polly Springs. "Though I don't know what you'll think of my wanting you to do housework," she said, anxiously, upon that young lady's arrival, "and if you're going to take it amiss, just tell me; but with that child, who's enough to try the patience of a saint, unless she changed from what she was last time, and her mother so easy she'd let her burn the house down without saying u word, I don't see what I tan do." Polly had tuken off her hat. "I hail as soon do housework as to sew," she replied, cheerfully. "And it's only two o'clock now; plenty of time to put things in order and have something b#ke4 foj tea. You stay in the other LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 11. isoo. toom, Mrs. Smith, and leave the kitchen Work for me." And Mrs. Smith left the kitchen with the serene consciousness that the biscuits would be as light, and the tea-cakes as delicately flavored, as if she herself had made them. So heartfelt was her grati tude, that half an hour later, when they had exhausted the subject of city life, tho neighbors, and piecing bed quilts, she surprised her cousin by waxing eloquent over Polly, Polly's father and Polly's wrongs. It took nearly an hour to tell the story, allowing for the inter ruptions occasioned by little Effie, who wns of an inquiring disposition; but Mrs. Latham was interested, and listened de lightedly. "And wouldn't it be a surprise to everybody if her father's inventions did turn out to be worth something, after all:'" she exclaimed. "Things like that have happened, 1 read of a man of that kind getting twenty-tive thousand dollars for a patent once." "He won't," declared Mrs. Smith, slioitly. "We used to think about it at lirst (look out, child, don't drop that vase) j but there's be'n more than a dozen come to look at his inventions, different times, and they all agreed they wa'a't worth the stuff that was putin them." "I suppose they ought to know," re luctantly admitted Daniel's wife. ("Eflie, dear, don't cut, holes in tho sofa. I'm afraid Cousin Ann won't like it.") And Daniel says that there isn't one thing out 01 a thousand like that that pays. But 1 always think of what might happen. And you know there is a chance." Mrs. Smith tiptoed to the kitchen door. "Polly's a good girl to work, if nothing else," she declared, co:ninp; back well pleased with the 112 *V of the creamy custard and nicely i_ jwued biscuit. "She's as quick as a flash of light ning." "Yes, and so handsome," chirruped Mrs. Latham. "If she was only as rich as some of the girls that " "Mamma!" it was a wild shriek of terror and pain. Eflie, in her endeavor to flnd out where the smoke went, had stood too close to the open fireplace, and her thin muslin apron was in a blaze. "Help! Save her! Water! Where's the water? Oh, my baby, my baby!" shrieked the frantic mother, at that in stant hardly less sane than the child, who was running wildly about the room. Mrs. Smith rushed into the kitchen, screaming as she went: "Fire! Help! Fire! She's burning to death!" < "Who?" gasped Polly, dropping her armful of wood with a crash. The next instant., before Mrs. Smith had time to realise her purpose, she had rushed into the other room, caught the frantic child, and wrapped her in her woolen dress skirt. It was only for one minute. In the next, Mrs. Smith had deluged them with water, Polly was ruefully regarding her burned hauds, and the tire was out. But that minute made the iuventor's daughter the heroine of Scrogsville. They talked about it at the store, and the sewing society, and on their way to church. The weekly paper devoted half a column to a description of the inci dent, and the 11. S. S. Association pre sented her with a copy of "Les Misera bles" as a testimonial of her valor and courage. As for Effie's father—"l'm not a rich man,"the big, broad shouldered mechanic declared, when his wife, with th» tears running down her cheeks, told him the story, "but some way or other I'll try to make up to that girl for what she's done for us. If there s anything in her father's inventing that any amount of my work can fix into paying him ordi nary day wages for the time he's spent on it, I'll flnd it. And what's more, he won't have to reckon with anything but the gross proceeds. The expenses I'll pay out of my own pocket." And that was how the investigation commenced. From the first Scrogsville people did not put much faith in it. It was a very thorough one. All John Spriggs's inventions, brought from garret, storeroom aud barn, were examined, taken to pieces, studied, put together again, turned this way and that, and ex perimented with in every possible com bination. But the more Mr. Latham worked the less hopeful he became. And after a week of patient labor he was forced to agree with the others who had tried that "the inventions wa'n't worth the stuff they were made off." He came into the Spriggs's kitchen that day look ing rather crestfallen. "No; there's nothing in them," he said, in answer to Polly's inquiring glance. "Nothing that I can find, and I used to call myself a good hand at that sort of thing. It can't be helped. But I wish I hadn't said anything about it now." John Spriggs looked up from his work with a reassuring smile. He had been the least interested of any in the in vestigation. "Oh, you needn't be," he responded, cheerfully. "It was very kind of you, very kind of you; but it's hardly to be expected you'd find any thing of consequence in these old con trivances of mine. Now, this weaving machine, when I get the idea worked out, Mr. Latham, I wouldn't take twenty five thousand dollars for the patent." Daniel rubbed his head. "I s'p'ose not, sir. You—you won't mind accept ing a little money from me, Miss Polly, for the time you couldn't work on ac count of your hands? But I'm sorry— what are you doing?" Polly was unfastening a jar of pickles. Shi turned around. "It is a cover father fixed for me because it was such hard work to unscrew the others. You press on this spring, you see, and it slips right off. It's ever s<smUch easier than the old way. "Whyj what's the mstttef?'' She wrts hardly prepared for the ex citement with which Mr. Latham sprang to his feet. "My land! my land 1" he exclaimed: "Here you and vdur father have beeii puttering along for rrionths; not knowing fro'm one day td another where the next meal was to corrfe from ( and right here using an invention worth a whole fortune in itself. Heavens and eaith! wa'n't there anybody to tell you about it?" Mr. Spriggs laid down the wrench he had been using. "Do you meau the can cover?" he asked, calmly. "I did think of it, but it wouldn't be good for any thing yon wanted to keep air tight. You—' -" "Air tight?" interrupted the mechanic. "Air tight? And do you mean to say a man who's got such a taste for invent ing machines with one thousand five hundred parts to them didn't know enough to put a rubber around and make it air tight? That's the invention, Miss Polty, and I bet my bottom dollar it makes your fortune!" "Wa-al, it does beat all what luck some people have," observed .Tim Bates to the usual audience at the store, a few months later. "Now, there's John Spriggs, be'n workin' fur years at sew | ing-machines, an' cyclometers, an' half a dozen other inventions that never brought him a cent, and when he hit on a can cover, that any of us could have fixed if we'd only thought on't, he's of fered six thousand dollars fur the patent the first thing. Six thousand dollars! I wouldn't believe it if he hadn't told ine so himself. 'Spriggs's Patent Cans,' they're going to call them." "Polly's Patent Cans, it ought to be," piped the storekeeper. "They say he'd never done a thing about it if it hadn't be'n fur Latham's thinking of the rub ber, an' if it hadn't be'n fur Polly he'd never hev concerned himself with Spriggs's inventions, or Spriggs either. They're going into partnership now, ho an' Latham, an' cackelate to make a mint of money, llut 'twas Polly started it in the first place." "An' it's my opinion Polly had the biggest interest in it," grinned the post master. "Her father's pervided fur now, an' nothin' to hinder her marryin' when she wants to; an jou can't make me be lieve they're movin' into the city jest to bo near Dan'l Latham. Not so long as Polly's be'n writin' letters to 'George Remington, New Yorl; Citjever since she come from there in the spring. Wa-al," reflectively, "it ain't much to in vent a can cover anyway; but I guess what credit there is to it belongs more to Polly than it does to Spriggs." "That's so," assented the crowd. But Jerry Tolles, seated in the corner, paid no attention to these derogatory com ments. "I allers said the boy would 'mount to somethin' yit," he chuckled, fumbling for his pipe.— Frank Letlie't. "Mustang Tom's" Life in a Wagon. There is hardly a more curious charac ter in all this big city full of queer peo ple than is "Mustang Tom," who makes New York his home for about one week every three years. Tom Stewart was barn in Pennsylva nia "nigh onto sixty-four years ago," as he phrases it. He has crossed the plains three times each way, and has never rid den on a boat or car. His first trip west ward was in 1849, the next ten years later, and lie has just completed the third, reaching San Francisco the other day. "Mustang Tom," as he is called, left New York city to begin his last jour noy eighteen months ago. His outfit consisted of a wagon drawn by a pair of small, brown mules, and large enough to hold Tom, his water spaniel Boston, a rusty array musket, some cooking uten sils and blankets. He shaped his course southwest, visited friends in Missouri, passed through Salt Lake City, halted | awhile at Tombstone, Ariz.,struck north ; to Idaho, went through Montana, East ern Oregon and Northern California, drifted down to Nevada, and then made for San Francisco. His first night in the city was passed at a cheap lodging house. He had not slept in a bed before for fif teen years, and ainounced on rising that he "didn't want no more of it." Two days in the California metropolis satisfied him, and the morning of the third he hitched up his mules and start ed for Arizona.— New York Prest. The Champion Tramp. The champion tramp would seem to be one Folkers. He belongs to Portland, Maine, and is a shoemaker by trade. For ten years he has been roaming the coun try, and he declares that not once dur ing this time has he paid a railroad fare, though on all his trips he patronizes the "iron horse." He says he has a craze for traveling, which seems very evident from his statement that he rides about 20 000 miles per year. Altogether he has traveled 200,000 miles.—SanFran ciico Chronicle. Organized Beggars. A society in Paris, organized to pre vent the trade in children by professional beggars, has made its first report in which it gives the names and addresses of several establishments which employ children as flower girls and as beggars. One of these employs 120 girls from eight to eleven years old to sell flowers on the streets. They are required to bring in a profit of sixty cents each or receive nothing for <.heir day's work.— Chicago Inter- Ocean. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. American shipbuilders are beginning to devote more attention to the work of sheathing ships. Five hundred thousand dollars is to lie invested in electric street railroads in SprirJgrifcld, Mo. The Port Huron (Mich.) tunnel is now 350 feet under the river bed. The bore is two-thirds done. The manufacture of sugar from water melons at Lodi, Cat., now amounts to several carloads per year. The use of electricity as a motive power for street cars will be an important sec tion of the census investigation of the electrical industry. A recent patent applies to a machine for dusting poisonous powders on grow ing plants, such as cotton or potatoes, to rid there of insects. It has just been discovered by a Ger man chemist that strong as steel is, it can be made yet stronger by an alloy of three to five per cent, of nickel. A new megaphone has been placed on the market in England, by which the human voice can lie so magnified that it may be heard at a distance of several miles. Two logs of curly poplar have been shipped from North Carolina to the Ger man Exposition which measured respec tively sixty-nine and seventy inches in diameter. Since certain sections of the tobacco growing districts in the South have been lighted by electricity, the ravages of the tobacco worm arc said to have been greatly reduced. As ores can no longer be sent to the United States, smelters will be built all over Mexico. The gross bullion will then be shipped for refining cither in England or Germany. A new German water pipe is mado of glass covered with a coating of aspsalt and fine sand. The advantages claimed are resistance to ground moisture and to acids and alkalies, and impermeability to gases. The latest experiments made with car rier pigeons in connection with various European armies show that the normal velocity of the carrier in calm weather and for a short distance is about 1210 yards a minute. The piece of crown glass, forty inches in diameter and two and a half inches thick, made in Paris for the object glass of it telescope for the Univorsity of South ern California, will require two years' la bor to turn into a finished lens. Inexhaustible quantities of red and yellow ochre have been laid bare by a landslide five miles south of Drain, Ore gon. It looks like rock, but dissolves readily in water,and gives a fine color on wood. It is believed to be an extremely valuable find. Professor Thompson,who was a teach er in Philadelphia when he made the dis coveries which have made him a million aire, predicts tbat sooner or later the problem will be solved of getting elec trical power from fuel direct, without the aid of steam. Some beautiful specimens of artificial malachite, well adopted for ornamental work, have been produced by Professoi de Schulten, of the University of Hel singfors. The process is said to consist in evaporating a solution of carbonate of copper in carbonate of ammonia. An electric railway in Siam has been incorporated and will be built at once from Bangkok to Paknam, a distance of thirty miles. This road is to cost $400,- 000, and Siijnesc capital will alone be used. An electric light company has also been organized and the plant ordered for Bangkok. One of the new things now mentioned is a fruit and vegetable drum invented in Georgia for a receptacle for fruit and vegetables, so constructed, it is claimed, as to secure complete ventilation and allow inspection of its contents without opening. It is barrel shaped with staves three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and may be made of any desired size. M. Jablockoff, of electric candle fame, makes a strong argument in favor of going back to chemical reactions for the production of electricity as a motive power. The dynamo machine does not utilize more than ten per cent, of the fuel, while more than ninety per cent, can be obtained under favorable circum stances in electro-chemical combinations. This Hand Never Struck Me. We recently heard the following touching incident: A little boy had died. His body was laid out in a dark ened room, waiting to be laid away in a cold, lone grave. His afflicted mother and bereaved sister went into look at the sweet face of the precious sleeper,for his face was beautiful even in death. As they stood gazing on the face of one so beloved and cherished, the little f,irl asked to shake his hand. The mother at first did not think it best, but the child repeated the request and seemed very anxious about it. She took the cold, bloodless hand of her sleepless boy, and placed it in the hand of his weeping sis ter. The dear child looked at it a mo ment, caressed it fondly, and then looked up to her mother through tears of afflic - tion and love, and said: "Mother, this hand never struck me." What conld be more touching and lovely?— United Pret hyterian. The Chicago Bun announces that the possibilities of revolutionary upheavals on the other side tend to make American investments popular. NO. 39. THE YELLOW HAMMER'S TAP. When gentle breezes softly play O'er meadows sweet, in fair-haired May, And whisper secrets to the pines In woodlands dense with clamb'ring vima; When balmy springtime fills the air. And scatters sweetness everywhere. Then there comes the ceaseless rap Of the yellow-hammer's tap,— Tip-tap, tap-tap, tip-tap-tip, Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip, Tipity-tep-tap; 'T is the merry pitter-patter Of the yeiloi i-hammer's tap. When brown wrens peer througlvough-hewa rail. And oft is heard the drum of quail. And thickets echo thrush's song. And swollen brooklet bounds along: When from the hedge the cat-birA» cry. And meadow-larks are soaring high, Then there cornea the merry tap ' Of the yellow-hammer's rap, — Tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap-tip, Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip. Tipity-tap-tap; •T is the ceaseless pitter-patter Of the yellow-hammer's tap. I When hazy shadows slowly creep. And lambkins bleat themselves to sleep; When from the pasture's daised plain Echoes the cow-bell's sweet refrain That blends with negro teamster"a song. As down the road he rides along. Again is heard the merry tap ' Of the yellow-hammer's rap,— Tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap-tip,— Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip, Tipity-tap-tap; T is the plaintive rat-a-tatter Of the yellow-hammer's tap. —Edward A. Olrlham, in The Century. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Never tell a blind man that he is look ing well.— Texas Sittings. Did you ever notice the ability of a saw mill to make things hum?—Bing hamton Republican. Kleptomania is rated to be, by all odds, the most lucrative form of insan ity.—Harvard Lampoon. It does not seem right to charge au enemy's battery after the guns have been paid for.— Pittsburg Chronicle. "Are you in the Butcher Trust?" "Yes —but we don't call it that. It is called a 'Joint Stock Company.' " — Chatter. Of all the glad unions of which men may dream, Tbe happiest match is of berries and cream. —Judge. "Oh, well every dog has his day." "Yes; and that is the very reason why I object to his howling nights."— Lowell Citizen. He—"l have three thousand a year. Y'ou could certainly live on that." She —"Yes; but I should hate to seg you starve."— Life. "That is awide-a-wake baby of yours, Bronson." "Yes," replied Bronson, with a yawn. "Particularly at night." —Harper l a bazar. Your barber flumtly detailed the news, And annotated same with weighty views; Whereby of wisdom quite a lot you gath ered. Before he had entirely got you lathered. -Pack. Collar—"What's the matter? Why are you so gloomy?" Culf—t"l never expected to be done up by a —Lawrence American. "Your husband seems very fond of angling." "He is." "Does he bring home all the fish he catches?" "Yes, and mote too."— Washington Post. "I declare, Tom," said the fond moth er, ''the-baby is the very image of you!" And the papers next day chronicled a "mysterious disappearance."— Judge. You say your bride is rich—that's so. And beautiful—l'll not say no; And hag good judgment—that's not true. Or she had ne'er made choice of you. —Judge. Boston Miss—"ls it proper to offer my hand to a gentleman upon being in troduced to him?" Chicago Miss— "Only in a leap year."— Philadelphia Press. Tramp—"Can I get a job here?" * Keeper—"What was your profession?" * Tramp—"Barber." Keeper—"Yes; go and beard that lion in his den."— Detroit Free Press. Canst tell the reason. (Jlytie, dear. Why you refused young Kidd? "Of course I can," she saia—a pause: "The reason was—well —just because— Oh, just—because I did! —Puck. Brawn—"But do you think that Fen derson's judgment is good?" Fogg—"lt ought to be good; in tip-top condition, in fact. I don't think it. has ever been used. "■— Boston Transcript. Prominent jewelers now affirm tfiat the diamond solitaire earring is going out. This will be cheering news to ear 3 that have never been able to get them in.— Boston Commonwealth. Dillenback (starting another Story at 11:55 P.M.) —"You know how I hate to walk? Well"—Miss Eugenia—"How forgetful of us! We'll have Thomas call the carriage at once. " — Judge. We'll away to the woods for a day of de light. We'll cull the sweet flowers of the plain; The skies will be cloudless, the day will be bright. For Oreely predicts it will rain. —Boston Courier. Teacher—"What's the past tense of seel" Pupil—"Seed." "What's your authority for that form?" "A sign in the grocery stores." "What does it say." "Timothy seed."— Binghamim Re publican,
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