SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. IX.
' Italy, it is announced, is strongly op
posing emigration.
Tho President of the Mormon Church
himself admits that the days of polygamy
are numbered.
The MH nufaeturers' lieeori claims that
"the agricultural possibilities of the
South are greater than those of the bal
ance of the country all combined, based
on the aggregate values and on actual
profits to producers."
Five years ago those who enjoyed
briwling on "ten pins" in and about New
York city certainly did not number more
than 5000, says the New York Times.
To-day, if a census would bo taken it is
doubtful it less than 20,000 patrons of
the alley would be counted.
Tho Indianapolis (Ind.) Ham's Horn
says: "An erratic old gentleman in
New York recently went hence and left
a large fortune to be expended in teach
ing people to eat with their forks. Had
•he left one-half of tho sum to provide
something for them to practice on, his
toemory as a benefactor would have
lasted longer."
A Chicago inventor claims to have pro
duced a machiue for picking cotton that
will do the work in the Southern fields
for one-tenth the present cost. The pres
ent cost is estimated at nearly §100,000,-
000 a year. It follows that if this ma
chine will do all that is claimed for it,
the saving effected will be not much less
than §90,000,000 a year.
Great preparations are being made in
Australia for the forthcoming Austra
lasiau Federation Convention, in which
all the Australian colonies of Great Brit
ain will be represented, and the meeting
of which will be the first step toward a
national organization that is intended to
include all those colonics in one power
ful union represented in a federal par
liament.
Lawyer Simon Stevens says that when
he sold the Mariposa grant for General
Fremont the latter realized §1,237,500.
He urged the General to put $600,000
into a trust fund. "He was at first in
clined to listen to mo, but Mrs. Fremont
■was full of ideas that it could be invested
by him in speculation, where it would
yield him untold millions, and she car
ried the day."
The fact that the French colonists in
Algiers show increasing fecundity, whiles
the French in France are steadily falling
off in that respect, suggests that the
mother country is overcrowded and the
social system unfavorable to marriage.
The cry is again raised that the Latin
race is dying out, which, asserts the
Washington Star, the fact recorded iu
Algiens and Latin-America do not bear
out. Another reason for decadence in
population is the eaily army age aud
long military service exacted, which,
with other causes, prevent the multiplica
tion of the population.
"It is singular," declares Frank Les
lie t, "that the rise iu silver threatens to
seriously affect Christian missions in for
eigu lands. Wheu silver was worth
twenty or thirty per cent, less than it is,
an American dollar was obviously worth
in the debased silver coinage of foreign
countries twenty or thirty per cent, more
than it is now. In other words, the rise
•in silver has brought the currency of
silver lands pretty nearly to an equality
with that of countries banking on a gold
basis. It is said that the Methodist Mis
sionary Society will, by reason of the
rise in silver, require a special appropria
tion of 820,000 to meet \he increased
cost of exchange in India, and that all
other religious missionary societies will
bo seriously affected."
It is interesting to know that when the
new naval vessels are completed the ef
fective force of the United States navy
compared with the European navies will
be as follows: United States, forty-two,
of which five will be battle ships and ten
other armored vessels; England, seventy -
six armored, 291 unarmored; France,
fifty-seven armored, 203 unarmored; Rus
sia, forty-nine armored, 119 unarmored,
and Germany, forty armored, sixty
five unarmored. "But the comparison
with these greatest powers of the world
is more flattering, admits the Washing
ton Star, than that with the smaller
navul powers, snrli as Holland, Spain,
Italy, Turkey, China, Sweden and Aus
,tria; for we are surpassed by them a!)
STIM with the new shies added."
REVELATION.
Brain-weary, heart-w«ny, soul-weary,
I sit me down to-night;
And sadnees deep enfolds me
As the dark on gulfs the light.
This dally toll and struggle-
Does It not far out-weigh
The little grains of gladness
We pick up, day by day?
Not for myself I sorrow,
My tot is heavenly bright
In contrast to the many
That throng my thoughts to-night.
So much of toll and trouble!
So much of needless pain!
So much of wasted riches
Of hand and heart and brain I
I strive to put it from me,
This puzzle old as Time—
Of unrewarded virtue,
Of thriving, happy crime.
I glance about for something
To turn my thoughts' sad strain;
My eye fal's on the Cereus
That wreathes my window pane.
So gaunt and grim and ugly
In its torturous twistings there;
So full of thorns, so graceless,
Devoid of all that's fair t
"Fit symbol," muse I, sadly,
"Of our twisted, thorn-strewn lives;
All barren, bent and wasted,
Where hope alone survives I"
But even as I whisper
These words of rebel gloom,
A strange, delicious fragranco
Pervades my lonely room;
And starting up in wonder,
I trace tho perfume's source
To a bud upon the branches
I had scorned as mean and coarse 1
I watch it, wonJer-stricken,
The clasping leaves unfold,
And reveal its matchless beauty,
So pure, with heart of gold!
I feel its mystic message
To my very being's core,
And the burden that oppressed me
Is gone to come no more!
Could ever sweeter token
Or surer answer come,
Than this perfect, stainless blossom
From its strange, unsightly home!
A flash of revelation
Enlightens all my soul;
The clouds of doubt and darkness
Forever from me roll!
My heart swells up in gladness^
In gratitude and love,
In faith and trust, implicit,
To the Father-heart above!
I know, past all distrusting,
That from our pain and strife,
Will bloom in perfect beauty
A glorious after-life!
—JBeulah It. Stevens, in the Housewife.
A DETERMINED WOMAN.
BY MACIUC E 6LINQBBY.
In one of the back settlements of
South Carolina, in the days which ren
dered the name of Marion, and other he
roes, forever glorious in the annals of
their country, dwelt a brave and devoted
family of patriots, named Hart.
Abijah and Abigail Hart were scarcely
past the prime of life, although they had
been blessed with a large family of chil
dren, only three of whom, however—two
boys and a girl—had survived the com
mon ills incidental to childhood.
The eldor son would have been two
and twenty had his life been spared;
but eight months before he had fallen
an innocent victim to the rage and mal
ice of the Tories, who swarmed in pred
atory bands throughout this section.
Upon these murdering wretches, who
had thus wantonly deprived them of
their eldest born, at a time when he
might have been of inestimable service
to them, the father and mother,
and only remaining son, Bilas, now in
his nineteenth year—afterward the cel
ebrated Indian fighter of Hardin County,
Kentucky—swore to be revenged, when
ever and wherever an opportunity should
offer to wreak their vengeance.
Leuh, their second remaining off
spring, was a beautiful and warm-hearted
maiden of seventeen, and the affianced
bride of Raudolph Darell, a brave young
officer, at one time upon the staff of
General Marion.
Young Darell was in the habit now
and then, whenever he could make an
excuse to obtain a furlough, of paying
a flying visit to Gum-Tree Farm, the
humble, though comfortable, home of
the Harts.
On one of these occasions a party of
seven mounted Tories pursued him near
ly the the entire distance from the Ameri
can camj) to the residence of the Harts,
he, however, contriving to elude them in
a piece of woods just before reaching the
farm.
An abrupt bend in the road had fav
ored him, und the Tory rangers, not
dreaming of this adroit move on the part
of the flying fugitive, dashed furiously
on till they came to the farm-house,
where they tumultuously demanded of
Mrs. Hart, who was standing in the
door-way, if she had seen a horseman
pass by who wore the uniform of an
American officer.
The woman shrewdly surmised who
the officer might be who would be com
ing alone in that direction, and promptly
inquired if the horse he rode was a sor
rel one. To her seemingly careless ques
tion the Torries promptly gave an affir
mative reply.
"Then he has rid into the swamp yon
der, by a cßrtpath that leads onto tha
Dcechkuoll road," answered the quick*
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1890.
witted woman, with an admirable pres
ence of mind, and an apparently cool in
difference to the subject, which carried
instant conviction to tho minds of the
Tories, who again spurred on in supposed
1 pursuit of the fugitive; but, to their
! great disappointment, the cart-road pres
'ently terminated in a bog, and, on acare
fful examination, thoy discovered that no
other horse-tracks had been left thero
but those of their own animals.
"He must have taken to the thicket,"
said the leader, after fully satisfying his
' mind on the subject. There is no use at
all in beating the ground farther, for ho
has had ample time already to escape.
We may as well make a virtue of neces
sity, and go back and see what is to be
got of the squint-eyed old woman at the
farm-house in the way of catibles. But
isn't she a big one in size, thought"
"And uglier-looking than sin, thun
derin' sight 1" added one of the men.
The Tory horsemen now wheeled about
and retraced their way to the farm-house,
which was only a short distance, just as
Randolph Dnrell was on the point of
emerging from the wood; but luckily he
disoovered them in season to escape their
notice, by abruptly retreating back again
under cover.
Alighting once more at the door of the
farm-house, tho Tory leader ordered Mrs.
Hart to prepare dinner for the party, and
bestir herself.
"How can I give you dinner when
I've nothing to cook?" retorted the reso
lute-looking woman, angrily. "I should
need a full larder to satisfy a half-dozen
such dirty rascals as you are."
"Silence, woman!" thundered the
Tory, in a commanding voice, "and do
our bidding." "I'll soon give you some
thing to cook," lie added, leveling his
carbine as he spoke, and bringing down
a plump turkey gobbler that was strut
ting along under cover of tho garden
wall. "There, now, go and pluck that
fine fellow, my beauty, and don't belong
about it, or we might be tempted to serve
you in the same way."
Leah, who had shrunk timidly into a
corner, started up in alarm when she
heard this threat, and made her way out
to the spot where tho bird had fallen.
Randolph Darell, alarmed at the shot,
was just on the point of dashing out of
his cover togo to the rescue of the
females, when he saw his aftinnccd rush
out, and bear the turkey hastily to the
house.
In a moment he divined tho cause of
the firing; and npt apprehending any
immediate danger to his sweetheart, so
long as the Tories were only anxious to
appeaso their appetites, he wont back to
his cover.
The quick eye of the Tory leader took
In the graceful outlines of the fair girl's
figure, as she rushed from the house.
"By the beard of King George 1" he
exclaimed, admiringly, "who 'ould 'ave
hexpected to see such a hangol in petti
coats 'ere. Come, my lass, and give
us one kiss from the rose-bud of a
mouth."
"You dare to lay jour cowardly hand
on ray Leah," cried the enraged mother,
doubling up her great, bouv fist, "and
I'll strangle you like a cur!"
"Why, you squint-eyed old beauty,"
retorted the Tory, mockingly, "I took
you for a hangel, but I find you are
wickeder than a she wolf with whelps!"
The rest of the gang laughed boister
ously at this weak attempt at wit. Then
turning to Leah with a gallant smile,
the Tory inquired how long it would
take to pluck and cnok the fowl.
Leah answered in a modest tone of
womanly anxiety, that it would require
at least three hours to serve it to their
liking.
"But," she auded, in a tone of con
ciliation, "wo have a pieco of roast
pork and some cold potatoes and corn
cake in the pantry, if they will answer."
The hungry party, who had been some
hours fasting, declared that the articles
named were good enough, and that they
would forego the turkey on this occa
sion for her sake.
With great alacrity, but with an anx
iously beating heart, Leah spread the
homely board, and brought forth tho
promised viands, which she laid out
temptingly before them. Sho then placed
what chairs and stools the house afforded
around the table, and politely invited her
unwelcome visitors to be seated.
Complying with her invitation, the
Tories carelessly stacked their cabines
near an open window, and, seating
themselves at the table, fell to, greedily
devouring the repast.
Mrs. Hart, in the meantime, with a
heroism superior to her sex, had watched
her hungry guests till she saw she was
not observed by them, when she slipped
out slyly from their midst, and, noise
lessly approaching tho open window, she
succeeded in drawing out three of the
carbines before her little game was dis
covered.
The moment the Tories perceived the
deadly purpose of the giantess, the three
nearest the window sprang to their feet
in terrified astonishment.
"Stanch back!" she cried, in a threat
ening tone, presenting one of the loaded
carbines with an air of resolute determi
nation. "Tho first villain of you that
stirs a step, I'll shoot; and the first one
that touches another mite of that pork
I'll blow his brains out!"
Without heeding her blazing eye, or
her stern verbal warning,the Tory leader
sprang fearlessly toward the stack of
arms; but before he could reach them
there was a report of near bine, and the
advancing ruttii/- fell tc the floor, while
th* slug, whici* had passed entirely
through his pody, struck another in the
temple, who was seated at the table, kill*
lag him instantly.
A third, rendered desperate by the try
ing situation, made a reckless attempt to
get possession of one of the carbines, and
instantly paid the penalty with his life.
Throwing the second empty carbine
aside, Mrs. Hart caught up the third
one, with which she now covered what
remained of the terrified party.
There were but four left, and not ono
of the four dared to move a finger.
"Leah, blow the dinner-horn I" cried
tho mother, in a tone of resoluto triumph.
"It is safe now to call in Silas and your
father."
The young girl, half-terrified out of
her wits, promptly obeyed the maternal
command, and a long, winding blast
echoed and re-echoed through the inter
vening woods.
She had left the house and joined her
mother on the outside before slie essayed
to blow it, and as she lowered the horn
frotn her lips, now rendered colorless
from her recent fright, her anxious eyes
were bent in the direction of the distant
corn-field, where her father and brother
and a faithful negro servant were at
work, although a narrow belt of timber
stretched between them.
She uttered a quick exclamation of
joyous pleasure, for at that moment sho
saw all three strike out of the wood and
start on a rapid run toward the house.
Hearing tho first shot that had been
firod and then alarmed by the other two
which had followed in such rapid suc
cession, they caught up their loaded car
bines and started on a run from tho field
whero they were thea at work.
The moment they had quitted the tim
ber they saw at a glance, by tho several
horses hitched to the fence and the bel
ligerent attitudo of the heroic giantess at
the window, pretty nearly how matters
stood at the house, and they all three
sent up an encouraging shout to the
women.
Just at thi9 point they heard the ring
ing sound of a horse's hoofs in an op
posite direction, and, turning suddenly,
Leah beheld her lover dashing furiously
toward the houso. This additional rein
forcement, coming so opportunely, yet so
unexpectedly, filled the heart of.the timid
maiden with Increased confidence.
"Ob, mother!" she burst out, excited
ly; "Randolph is coming—see! lie is
just leaving the wood. Isn't it lucky for
him to come just at this time, when wo
hau no reason to expect him?"
"I expected him," said Mrs. Hart,
with quiet assurance. "I know It was
he the Tories were in pursuit of, and I
was determined to outwit them, if it lay
in the power of a woman to do it. Every
thing has turned out for the best; for
had Lieutenant Darell ridden straight
here, instead of lingering in the wood,
as he did, he would doubtless have been
captured, and perhaps murdered before
our eyes. 8o you see, my girl, the ways
of Providence are better than our ways,
for they always turn out for the best in
the end."
In another moment Randolph Darell
had alighted at their side, and in the
next, tho blushing and happy Leah was
enfolded in his manly embrace.
While the lovers were thus pre-occu
picd. Abijah, Silas and the negro ar
rived, fearfully excited and wholly out
of breath.
Hilas recovered first, and was about
to shoot down one of the Tories, when
his mother resolutely interfered.
"Don't shoot them! Leave them to
mo, Silas. I will mete out their punish
ment to them. We haven't forgotten
Eben's murder yet, and shooting is too
good for 'em. We will just hang thera
like a pack of dogs, the whole cowardly
kit of them. Oct the clothes line, Leah;
we can afford to cut it on such a right
eous and heaven sent occasion!"
Randolph shuddered, for he under
stood the determined character of tho
woman and knew that she would not be
long in putting her terrible threat into
execution. Nor, indeed, was sho; for
within the ensuing hour, in spite of their
(rrayere and protestations, the bodies of
the four Tories went dangling from tho
nearest tree. And thus at the hand of a
resolute and heroic mother, was the death
of a beloved son simply and satisfactorily
avenged.
After the Tones had hung a sufficient
time, they were cut down and tumbled
indiscriminately, with the other three,
into one common grave.
Shortly after this event, Leah and
Itandolph Darcll were happily united in
wedlock; and soon after the close of
our glorious Revolution, the whole
family emigrated to Hardin County,
Kentucky, where they could have, as
Mrs. Hart expressed it, more "elbow
room," if less civilization.— New York
Weekly.
Trade in Cast-Off Teeth.
A medical statistician estimates that
tho citizens of the United States are car
rying gold to the value of 1)500,000 in
the recesses of what ought to bo their
teeth. There are no people on tho face
of the globe who have such bad teeth and
who spend so much money upon them as
the Americans. No doubt the habit of
huriied feeding atid the wholesale con
sumption of sweet dishes have assisted
much toward this end. But is it not a
mistake to suppose, as says the medical
statistician, that false teeth set in gold
are buried when their owner shuffles off
this mortal coil? If this is the custom iu
America, it is not so in England, or why
the numerous advertisements offering to
to buy old artificial teeth'; The old teeth
are not bought to use again, as somo
nervous people fancy, but simply for th«
sake of the gold.— Popular l') uci</tr,
Terms—sl2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A mill at Alpena, Mich., makes good
cnaniila paper from pulp of tamarack.
An lowa court has deoided that a
meteor belongs to tho person on whose
land it falls.
Montana claims to have the largest and
finest jasper quarries in the world, re
cently discovered.
A new gutwhas been perfected by Signor
Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty
four shots a minute.
For every fifteen yards we descend into
the earth the temperature increases about
ten degrees Fahrenheit.
The fastest ship in the French navy
now has a speed of 19.(38 knots per
hour without engine strain.
An Italian savant claims that in
jecting a current of electricity through
milk delays its souring for several days.
A new system of ventilation, never be
fore used on ocean steamships, is to be a
factor of the two new vessels now being
constructed for the transatlantic service
of the Cunard Line.
A rich bed of coal has beeu discovered
in the Russian Amrtor province of Siberia,
on Usuri River. The quality of the de
posit is said to be equal to that of tho
best English product.
It is the opinion of noted specialists on
diseases of tho noss, throat and lungs
that one baby in every three has a growth
in the nose that obstructs respiration. It
is due to covering up the head.
Ono of the steel saws at the Washing
ton Gun Foundry recently cut tlftough a
piece of gun-carriage metal four inches
in width by five inches in thickness in
twenty minutes. The saw is of English
make.
Two chemists ore experimenting at
Preeport, Penn., with the view of pro
ducing cttrbon points for electric lighting
from natural gag. It is said that by
burning the gas in a specially prepared
furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as
yet at a cost too great for practical pur
poses.
A twenty-two-icoli iron pipe which
was recently exhumed after being buried
in the earth for fourteen years, at Lassen,
Cal., came out as good as new. The
pipe was coated with asphaltum when it
was put into the ground. This may be
taken as a good test of the preservative
virtues of asphaltura.
An old sea captain's argument is re
called at the completion of till race be
tween thte steamships City of New York
and Teutonic. His was the view that
the City of New York would win the
eastward passage and the Teutonic the
westward, because the vessels are evenly
matched, and one is better adapted to
English and tho other to American
coals.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) fire department
has lately received a novel Are engine
which has excited much interest in that
city. The carriage is constructed en
tirely of papier mache, all the different
parts of the body, wheels, poles and the
rest being finished in the best possible
manner. While tho durability and
powers of resistance possessed by this
material are fully as great as those of
wood the weight is, of course, mucb
less.
A new machine has been designed for
the excavation of sewer trenches. The
material in this system of excavation is
handled but once, and the operation is
continuous, a lino of loaded buckets
passing out and a line of empty ones re
turning to be filled at the same time.
Ordinary excavating machines requiro
the empty buckets to be returned over
the same line over which the full ones
>re sent out, and ill is claimed that for
:his reason the new machine cau work
noie rapidly and cheaply.
The six-incb ordnance rifle which suc
;eedcd in demolishing tho British armor
plate at Annapolis is capable of hurling a
projectile through 10$ inchos of wrought
iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzle
of the gun. The power of the eight
inch gun is 16 3-10 inches, same dis
tance, and of the ten-inch gun twenty
one inches, same distance. Tho twelve
inch projectile will pierce twenty-eight
inches at a distance of 3000 yards. The
thirteen-inch guns, which will be pro
vided for the battle ships, are capable of
demolishing the heaviest armor.
A New Puzzle.
A new puzzle lias been sprung upon
the inoffensive people of this weary
world. It is an innocent-looking affair,
and au inexpensive one withal, but more
deadly than ''pigs in the pen." This
latest brain-raking device consists simply
of three columns of figures,arranged thus:
111
8 3 8
5 5 5
7 7 7
0 8 9
Nov . the point is to add together any
six of the above figures and make the
total 21.— Philadelphia litcord.
One way of gcttiug along in this world
is to walk.— Vet rait Free Pre**.
NO. 7.
LEAVES.
rhe leaves, so brilliant before they wero
shed,
How changed they seem when they cover our
dead!
Silently fallen with pathos of tears,
How like.they are to the vanishing years!
What precious, consoling thoughts they in
spire,
[n hearts now as still as a broken lyre!
Under the leaves and, though sadly laid
there.
With a trust as sweet as an infant's prayer.
Under the leaves and the shadowing trees,
Their requiem sung by the moauiug breeze.
Under the leaves and the moon's tender
light,
Under the stars of the soft, jeweled night.
Under the leaves and the sun's splendid ray.
Prophetic sign of etornal (lay.
Under the leaves and tho dear summer flow
ers.
Fragrant with memory of happy hours.
Beneath the autumnal and storm-swept sky,
Yet peacefully resting whore pansies lie,
Under the leaves and the white, vestal snow.
Emblems of pureness the angels know.
Under the leaves and tho blossoms of spring,
There awaiting our risen King,
Under tho loaves and the sweet song of birds,
Can lovo bo lost that was deeper than words?
O'er tho sad, dead leaves, oh, do not grieve
long,
But breathe a prayer that shall blend into
song;
For under tho leaves, though the mortal lie,
How grand is tho soul on high I
There, through eternity's cycles untold.
The love that was true shall never grow
cold.
And there, nt last, by the beautiful stream,
May our lovo and life be like a sweet dream.
—The Interior.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Noah's arc—The rainbow.
Each addition to one's kiudrcd is a
relative gain.
A fiery temper gives adverse criticism
a warm :eception.
The cat has nine lives, and spends
them all in vocal culture.
There wasn't enough of the Swiss revo-
lution togo round.— Pittsburg Chronicle-
Idegraph.
"Well," said the baseball captain,
"our cake is all dout'h? "How do you
account for it?" " WJfrlurreu't u «ood
batter."— Munsey's Weekly.
Fred—"What is the matter? You look
positively ill." Tom—"Negatively ill,
you mean, isn't it? My best girl has
said no to me."— Munsey's Weekly.
The oldest inhabitant is an interesting
personage; but he doesn't make half as
much noise in his immediate locality as
the youngest inhabitant does.— Puck.
Tho man who thinks ho knows it all
Upon his nose may take a fall;
But ho who sometimes is in doubt,
May tlnd that weakness helps him out.
—Puck.
Politeness generally pays. A gentle
man who gave up his seat to a lady on
an elevated train, afterward found out
that she hud been robbed while occupy
ing it.— Puck.
"We are rather at a loss to kt*>w why
sunlight is so often described as "gold
en." The "silver" moon is accounted
for by coming in quarters and halves.—
Berkshire News.
"How long has your daughter been
practicing on the piano?" "To be exact
she began one month before our neigh
bor went crazy, and he's been iu the
asylum a year."— Figaro.
The Obliging Peddler—"lf you don't
stop talking to me al>out your wares I
will whistle for my dog." "I have some
most excellent whistles, sir; just try one
or these."— Flitgerule Blnetter.
Landlady—"Mr. McOinnis, may I ask
what you are trying to iiud in that cream
pitcher?" Boarder —"1 am trying, Mrs.
Irous, to rescue an unfortunate fly from a
watery grave."— Chicago Tribune.
Willie took his father's razor and his shaving
cup
' To shave hiuiself last week;
The doctor charged a fiver when he sewed the
gashes up
In little Willie's cheek.
"Humph," remarked a young man,
"my cigar has gone out." "Well, that
settles it," replied his room mate. "I
was wondering which of us it be,
myself or the cigar."— Washiugton
Post.
Grocer—"What's that about the dozen
eggs you bought this morning?" Brown
—"They were all bad except one, and
I've called to see how much extra I owe
you for tho good one."— New York
Sun.
"This bell," said a well meaning sex
ton, when showing the belfry of an in
teresting village church to a party of
visitors, "is only rung iu case of a visit
from the lord bishop of the diocese, a
fire, a flood, or any other such c.ilar -
ties."— London Figaro.
Travels—"How much tiro tues>-
trousers!"' Tailor—"Twenty dollars,
sir." Travers—"Ami you sny you re
quire a deposit from strangers!" Tailor
—"Yes, sir." Travers (warmly)—" A
lready I feel myself growing intimate
with you."—JVeio York Sun.
Briggs—"l want to get some soiled
neckties." Astonished Clerk—"Soiled
neckties, sir? Soiled, did you say?"
Briggs—That's what. When you call
upon a girl four times a week and she's
miking a crazy quilt, you will under
stand that a man has trot to buy neckties
at job-lot prices or suspend payment-**—
Clothier and Furnisher.