SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. IX. Emperor William wants to nationalize the German railways. He would like to see the change made before next year. There is a vast amount of private wealth in Chili, and the aristocrats are lavish iu their expenditures. Many of the private residences in Santiago aro veritable palaces and are magnificently furnished. The arid lands capable of cultivation are estimated at 100,000,000 acres by Major Powell, of the United States Geo logical Survey. They can be cultivated only through irrigation. At present the sites for reservoirs and irrigating ditches are withheld by Congress from settlement or sale. It must be a sharp surprise, surmises the St. Louis Star-Hayings, for villages that have uestled at the base of a mount ain for years to be suddenly ingulfed in hot lava which pours from the mountain's top. That is what happened in Armenia the other day. Inhabitants a'i I real es tate in that neighborhood have both suf fered from the mountain's debut as a vol cano. In spite of the lack of faith in certain juries in New Orleans, observes the Chi cago Uerald , the people there keep up a custom which is indicative of the deepest respect for the courts. Visitors to the city arc apt to encounter chains stretched across important streets and traffic sus pended thereon. Inquiry brings the au sivcr that the streets are closed because they lead by the courts and the courts are iu session. When courts adjourn the chains arc tossed asule and traffic goes on again. i The doctors are. fond of telling pa tients, asserts the San Francisco Chroni cle, that, any particular symptoms which they describe aro the work of their im agination, but a recent case has shown they are liable to error. A woman who has just <1 ied in Bridgeport, Conn., want ed the hospital physician two years ago to recover a set of false teeth which she declared she had swallowed. An opera tion showed the stomach to be empty, but the doctors told her (he teeth had been found. A post-mortem examina tion showed she had lived two years with the false teeth in her gullet. Only about twenty-five United States ships, exclusive of the revenue cutters and the training squadron, are now in conunissiou, but it is estimated that five years hence there will be forty-nine ships available for active service, aud that of these only three or four will be of the antiquated "types that now make up the bulk of the navy. Before that time ar rives, however, there will be a vast change ~ft the make up of various squadrons. The Asiatic squadron in particular will hove got itself a new outfit. Several of the vessels on that station have been kept there for years past chiefly because they were unfit for the voyage home across the Pacific. The rage for high buildings in Chi cago is increasing rather than abating in intensity. More tall structures pierce the sky than arc to he seen in auy other city, but they are few in comparison with the others that will rise in a compara tively short time at the present rate of construction. Every office building now adays must run lrom fifteen to twenty stories high, and new ones arc being projected utmost daily. Where this rage will stop no one cau tell. The man who puts up a twenty-two story building will be beaten by the next one, and so on, until wo may yet have buildings which tower above the clouds, with occupants enjoying sunshine and fair weather while the rest of us are slushing around in the rain and fog below. The grasshopper plague is apparently to have a successor in a caterpillar plague, notes the Chicago Herald. Re ports from British Columbia state that swarms of these pests are appearing along the railroad lines, covering the tracks and giving evidence of phenome nal numbers that bode no good to the season's agriculture. The cable reports a IFKe phenomenon iu Bavaria, where men, women and children are engaged fighting caterpillars. Like grippe, it may be that this nowest torment is to seise Europe and America simultan eously. Science offers no means of ef ficient resistance. The ravages of the locust are still visible in Kansas and other Western States. The American farmer will have a sorry year if a visita tion of caterpillars is to he added to grasshopper. THE STARRS HOST. Aie countlnss stars which to our human mye Are fixed and steadfast, each in proper place. Forever bound to changeless points in space, Bush with our sun and planets through the sky, And like a flook of birds still onward fly; Returning never whence began their race, They speed their ceaseless way with gleaming face, As though God bade them win Infiuity. Ah, whither, whither is their forward flight Through endless time and limitless ex panse? What power with Unimaginable might First hurled thorn forth to spin in tireless dance? What beauty lures them on through primal night. So that, for them, to be is to advance? —BishopSpalding, in the Century. OLD HUNDRED, B. C, AND THE BICYCLE. BY AMOS R. WEILS. OM Hundred's real name was P. T. Simmons. "Just P. T;" ho always in sisted. "They don't st'ind for anything. Father and mother ran out of names when they etime to me, and gave me ini tials. " Ho the village wag dubbed him Old Hundred, for short, and the name adhered. For Old Hundred was one of those dried up little men who might be con sidered twenty if some inconvenient t.ld ladies did not remember holding them in their arms just forty years ago. He wore a dainty juvenile mustache, walked with a smart swing, although one might no tice that his heels came down rather stiffiy, and played games among the most frivolous at the church socials. He was a tailor, an excellent one, by the way, and his apprentices had by this time ceased to grin and chuckle when their master sprang down from his cross legged position on the table every morn ing precisely at ten, as B. C. passed on her way to the postoffice, after the mail. He would jump down, snatch up his hat iu an absent minded, blushing way, and remark that the mail must be distributed by thi? time. If the apprentices had ceased to smile at this sort of thing, you may be sure that it had become uu old story. Indeed, Old Hundred had been court ing B. C. for a long, long time. And that was too bad, because 13. C. deserved a better fate, a more vigorous lover. No one could tell when Susy Bennett was first culled B. C. If one could have told that, you sec, it would have given some clue to her age. Susy was a dear old girl, howevdr, with kind, laughing eyes, aud a shrewd little brain of her own. It wasn t her fault if she was getting up startlingly near a very rheumatic forty without netting Old Hundred. For when a man has gone through forty years with a sneaking desire for matrimony tilillating his heart all the while, without the grit and manliness to say so when given opportunity by the proper person once, twice, daily, Cupid despairs of him more thau of the most rabid mysogynist in Bachelor.iom. There is such a thing, you know, as a heart which iB too soft for those dainty little darts, which merely nurses them as a leather pillow would. One day the ancient twaiu were stroll ing back from the postoffice at 10:30 A. M.; with the incipient courtship air which had . been petrified so long ago. She was smiling at him, bravely and hopefully, and talking bright nothings, while his feather-pillow of a heart, fluttered drowsily. Suddenly there flashed around the cor ner and bore straight down upon them Will Davis and Lucy his young wife, on their bicycles, oil for u day's holiday to gether, if one might judge from then bundles. Upright they were, noiseless, swift, graceful and full of life in even movement. and in every iluttering gar ment, glittering eyed, with handsome, healthful faces. Old Hundred and B. C. turned to gaze admiringly after them. '•How finely Mrs. Davis rides!" mur mured Old Hundred. "And how exceedingly graceful Mr. Davis is!" responded B. C. rather sharp ly. "I've often thought that I should like a wheel," said Old Hundred, with, of course, no perception of her aunoyance. "And I should enjoy one very much," added B. C. "You!" Old Hundred• blurted out, before he thought. He took mental credit to himfclf for not finishing the sentence! "You can get tricycles now-a-days for almost nothing," said B. C. slyly, "and of course that is the only wheel you would think of at your time of life, Mr. Sim mons!" "Hum!" said Old Hundred, and "Hum!" said B. C. Now don't expect to be treated to a lover's quarrel. Our sedate couple had got far beyond that dangerous stage of courtship. Yet as they parted somewhat grimly, "I'll show him!" muttered B. C., and "I'll show her!" muttered Old Hundred. And that very afternoon the heart of the village bicycle agent was made glad by an order for a lady's safe ty, and an order for a safety for our doughty tailor. That was on a Monday, and our nar rative calmly skips a month at this point, —caitniy and mercifully. "Vora time immemorial it had beeD LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1891. Old Hundred's habit to call on B. O, on Sunday evenings. At the beginning of his courtship, the hand of the feather' hearted tailor had quivered suspiciously in the operation of shaving for this im portant occasion. In the adjustment of bis necktie his clumsiness had been phenomenal—for a tailor> His steps up the broad walk which led to B. C.'s frontdoor had been noticeably unsteady. B. C. had coyly sent the servant to usher him in, and often, with an affectation of careless indifference, received him with out rising from her chair. All that had long been changed, but this particular night seemed to repeat the experiences of old. Old Hundred's toi let was accomplished with blundering slowness. And why does the odor of liniments follow the fiery lover from his room? And why does he groan as he bends to reach the gate-latch? And what has become of his brisk, swinging gait up the board walk? And why does not B. C. receive him, smiling, at the door ? "Why does she remain in that thick padded arm-chair, and stretch her hand out to him so slowly? And what is the use of usiug cologne where arnica has been? "Miss Bennet," said Old Hundred, af ter a few wandering remarks—(he al ways Miss-ed her) —"didn't I notice a bicyclo standing in the hall-way?" "Why, Mr. Simmons I Didn't you know that I could ride?" asked B. C. with a radiant smile. "Is it possible I Why, we must have a ride together!" cried the astonished tailor. "Together, Mr. Simmons? Can you ride, too?" inquired B. C., with real amazement. "Of course I canl That is—um—rr —in fact, I'm learning. And I'm get ting on well, excellently well, Mr. Spoke tire says, for a man of my—er —l should say, excellently well. But how did you learn so soon?" Old Hundred asked, ad miringly. "Well, I can't say that I am thiough with my apprenticeship yet," confessed B. C., with a charming blush, "but Mr. Spoketire says he hardly has to hold the machine at all, and he thiuks I'm doineing hidden in a thicker cloud of dust, and inscribed in a deeper rent. But what were clothes to a tailor? There was Miss Bennett's unsteady form just disappearing over the edge of the first little hill. He must catch up with her, or be her laughing-stock forever. Luck ily, a small boy just came sauntering by, to whom he gave ten cents, with full di rections, and was assisted off in much better shape than poor B. 0. had been. "Oh, that I were safe in my shop, sit ting cross-legged on the table!" thought Old Hundred. ' That bicycles had never l>een invented ! That Miss Bennett were not ss fond of them! How smart she is? Who would have thought it at her age I" But just here a rut upset the train of his thoughts, and all but upset himself. The small boy, left behind, was chuck ling with amusement. How close the ditches seemed, and how fearfully deep? The machine, to the tailor's apprehen sion, seemed insanely bent on plunging over the brink. His arms were pulled almost out of their sockets. Perspira tion blinded his eyes. More and more wildly with each rut swayed the crazy bicycle, and whirled Old Hundred dizzy brain. He came to the brow of the little hill, which seemed a fearful declivity. Old Hundred clinched his teeth and pushed back bard on the pedals, throw ing on the brake with all his might. Just then he struck a loose stone, lost control of the wheel, and with closed eyes rau directly toward the side, and upset. The little tailor rolled over and over down the hillside gully, and lay on top of his wheel at the bottom. Slowly Old Hundred rose, and found to his intense relief that he had broken no bones. To his equally great relief ho discovered that he had broken the bicy cle. One pedal projected from the crank at a most astonishing angle. A gay laugh rang out a few yards farther down the ditch, and lo! thereon its bowldery side sat the stout-hearted B. C. ; at her feet her tricky wheel! A happy light shone in her eyes. ".My wheel is broken!" said she, point ing to a handle-bar bent back some forty dogrees. "And mine, too," said the smiling tailor, showing the disaffected pedal. "Isn't it too bad!- I'm afraid we'll have togo home.'' With some toil they hoisted their bi cylca to the road again, anil set out for the town, trundling them happily. And then it was that the tailor spoke these memorable words: "Susy," said he, and Miss Bennett's brave old heart knew what was ap -1 proaching. "Susy, you see how very unsteady these bicycles are, separato?" "Very," said B. C., tremblingly. "But suppose, Susy, one were to take two bicycle, .like yours and mine, and put a couple of axles across, and a box j on top, with two seats and a cover, what would that be, Susy?" "A family carriage," said B. C., look i iug downward with a smile. ••Yes, Susy, and it wouldn't tip over, j but would run smoothly and safely, and wouldn't it be nice, Susy?" and Old Hun dred tried to trundle with one hand, that he might use the right arm for another purpose, but it wouldn't work. "Wouldn't it be much nicer, Susy?" Yes, Susy thought it would. " And so B. C. and Old Hundred walked happily back to town along that Middle ton Road henceforth blessed to them both, trundling the fateful bicycles, which alone had been equal to the jndinp of that long courtship. Near town, Spoketire whirled smartly up, and dismounted at sight of them. "Had accidents, I see. Too bad. However, I can soon straighten that out." I "We have decided, Susy aud I, Mr. Spoketire," said the bold tailor proudly, "to sell our wheels, and we want you to act as agent. We'll leave them at your shop. You see, Mr. Spoketire, we have decided, Susy and I, to set Op a lainily carriage."— Yankee Blatle. Keen are the Shafts of Ridicule. Brave heartshave flashed out of life from the diu of many a field of battle, the record of whose courage could nevei transcend the daily life of many a woman, forced to keep a steady front turned to ward the legion of annoyances that marshal behiud an inadequate* income. A pretty woman, forced togo looking like a dowdy because she canuot afford, or is not sufficiently selfish to wear, fine aud expensive clothes, is a sight to earn the plaudits of such as appreciate hero ism of the unwept and unstoried kind. It takes more strength of character tc face ridicule than it does to face a battery of Oatling guns. A sneer pierces deepei than a bullet. A blow that only reaches a physical nerve center does not tell like the blow that buries itself in the soul. ] can dodge a shell, if the Lord has given me a level head and a moment's time, but nothing is going to help me when my enemy rakes me with the light artillery of scorn and contempt. If we but knew the inside history of the man who goes dressed in seedy clothes, or the woman who wears old shoes and rusty gloves, we should perhaps uncover, when some of these shabby folk meet us on the way as commoners do when royalty rides by. —Chicaao Herald, Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Paris has electric cabs. Aluminium is $1 a pound. Electric boats are being made. Sanguinite, a new mineral, contains ■ilver, arsenic and sulphur. A waterproof paper has lately been in vented that will even stand boiling. Metals are found to corrode much faster when in galvanic connection than otherwise. The metal in a five cent nickel piece is worth about half a cent, and fifteen cents will purchase copper enough to make $3 worth of cents. The Frankfort (Germany) Electrical Exhibition will be furnished with lights, and its machinery will be operated from a distance of 107 miles. The first known weather record was kept by Walter Merle for the years 1337 to 1344. A few photographic copies of the original Latin manuscript—now in the Bodleian Library—have just been made. Among the anomalies reported con cerning the past winter is that the weather in Iceland was the mildest re membered. There was not, we are told, a flake of snow, nor a single hour of frost. A new spool factory in the town ol Alpena, Mich, turns out 80,000 spools daily. Last year the twenty-three mills in the town put out 202,000,000 feet of lumber, 52,000,000 laths asd 33,000,000 shiuglcs. There was recently exhibited in Dub lin, Ireland, a new burner for lighthouse use, possessing twice the illuminating power of the largest burners now em ployed. It is calculated that this new burner, in connection with a specially devised system of lenses, will transmit a light equal to about eight millions of candles, which far exceeds the most pow erfnl light at present used. Iron pipe is now welded by electricity at the Columbus (Ga.) iron works. Co lumbus is the first city in the South in which this new system has been em ployed. The managers of the iron works expect to effect a considerable saving over the old method, each weld taking about seven seconds. From the time of finishing one weld until the completion of the next takes about one minute. This includes clamping the two pipes, ad justing the position of the machine, weld ing and taking out the pipes. Au ingenious machine is used iu Eng land for preparing telegraph post arms. These arms are usually made from the best selected English oak and vary in length from two feet to four feet. They are in the first case planed on the four sides by means of a special planing ma chine, and then sawn to the exact length required by means of a doublo cross-cut sawing machine made specially for the purpose. The arms are then passed on to the shaping machine, which rapidly and effectively docs its work. The ma chine is quite self-contained and has the driving shaft placed overhead and sup ported upon standards fixed to the main bed. The arrangements for dealing with the various lengths of arms have been carefully worked out. At thfc official test of the machine the wooden arms were finished at the rate of three pet minute. A Caucasus Chevalier. The Caucasus is full of highwaymen, who make the roads unsafe. But there are also knights of good order there, of whom the highwaymen are in terror. The Listok of Tiflis reports an interest ing illustration: A merchant of Tiflis made his way to a neighboring city to purchase horses. lie had a large sum of money with him. In the district of Bortchaliusk ho was assailed by three Tartars, who tied him to a tree. One of them held a dagger over his bead, while the other two unbuttoned his garment* and made ready to steal what he had. But suddenly a man on horseback ap peared from behind a hill. As soon as the robbers sighted him they called out, "Shaitan lialir!" (Satan comes), aud mounting their horses, disappeared iu s moment. The mau on horseback freed the unfortunate merchant and told him tc mount and resume his journey. Th« merchant offered a hundred ruble bill tc his liberator, but the latter disdainfully declined to accept it. "If thou hast many of these things," he said, "endow the poor aud hide the rest. Shatro does not want thy mouey. Go thy way, and include Shatro in thy prayers to Allah.' —Boston Transcript. Cleaning Car Wheels by Sand Blast. A very efficient application of the sand Must is made in cleaning newly-cast car wheels in the New York Car Wheel Works, Buffalo, N. Y. When taken from the soaking pit the wheel is rolled into a small chamber, where it stands in a vertical position. The tread of the wheel stands ou rollers which are moved by gearing, so that the wheel is slowly revolved without ohanging its position. A flue, into which cinders are fed by a chute leading from a bin above, leads a blast of air against the face of the wheel, which is then reversed. The cinders used vary from the size of a grain of wheat to much larger, and are used over and over. With this apparatus one man can clean twenty wheels in three hours and a half, iucluding the time consumed in rolling them to and from the ma chine. The cost is less than hand labor, and the cleaning is better done.— New York Journal, NO. 40. IK CAMP. Skyward Pine, thai saw it all, y* Whigper never what thoti knoweatl Many, many things befall When the coaxing moon is tall Through the tender shade thou thro west. Blame not me, O Pine, too soont I —ye all beguiled me to It! Had it not been night and June, With the pine-breath and the moon. I had ne'er been bold to do it. Ah, her forehead was so white Where that soft ray came and ktMed her; When the happy heaven's light Lingered with her as of right— As of sister with a sister! All our little camp asleep; Only I at midnight waking- Waking to the moon—to creep, '( , Kiss her silent brow—and keep ; Lips aye holier for that slaking. She, O Pine, will never know— Never blush amid her laughter. She Is nothing poorer so, Iso rich—as who shall pro *) Dreaming it forever after! —By Charles F. Loo mis, in Scribner. HUMOR Oi THE DAT. A mile is the centipede of distance; it has 5280 feet.— Washington Star. •There's millions in it—The United States Treasury. Washington Star. The rolling stone gathers no moss ; but it manages to keep on top, for all that. The xylophone player is the fellow who makes the "woods ring."—States man. A man can call his body an earthly tenement, and yet object to being called a flat.— Pack. It was a mean artist who suggestively painted a dairy in water-color#.—Rich mond Recorder. The honey bee deserves recognition a# kind nature's sweet restorer.— Klmira (N. Y.) Gazette. Though some women have golden hair, others havo but plaited hair.— Jeweller's Circular. It is probable that many jolly dogs will have barks on the sea this summer. —New York Herald. A manufacturing dentist often shows his teeth without smiling or opening his mouth.— New York Journal. Iron is good for the blood, but no man likes to have it administered in the form of carj cl-t-i'-'v. -Puck. A man never realizes until he has made a fool of himself what a laughter-loving world this is.— Atchison Globe. He—"Miss Shirpe has a very fine voice." She—"No wonder. She grinds it so much."— Detroit Free Press. Don't undcr-rate modest ability. The needle has only one good point; butVwe couldn't get along without it.— Puck. The good artist is known by his work, but the poor artist is obliged to grow his hair long to be identified.— Statesman. "Is there anything brilliant about Prozer's writings?" "Yes—the stars between the paragraphs."— Chicago Herald. Frank—"Stella'-*; face is her fortune!" Tom—"Yes, but she's given too many certified checks to time."— New York JJtrald. "Blitturs began life as a school teacher." "Kcally?" What a preco cious little baby he must have been."— New York Sun. Tt e's nothing like sticking to a thin when you apply yourself to it, as the ny said when it alighted ou the fly paper.— Texas Sittings. Little Kitty (who is doing the honors and wishes to be very pompous) —"Will you have chicking or mutting, Mr. Brown?"— Harvard Lampoon. No, Ethel, you are mistaken. The phrase, "a literary treat," has no refer ence to the setting up of books by the printer.— lnduinajjolis Journal. "Tastes differ," said Mugley. "Good thing thoy do," putin Bottleton. "If they didn't squills and strawberries would taste the same."— New York Sun. Jack Witherspoon—"Why do you sing all the time." Jim Westhall—"To kill time." Jack Witherspoon—"You have a good weapon."— Princeton Tiger. Some people are born musicians, others achieve music and others live next door to the man who hopes to play the cornet in the village band.— Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette. Young Wife—"We are told to 'cast our bread upon the waters.'" The Brute —"But dou't you do it. A vessel might run against it and get wrecked." —New York Herald. Mistress (tryiug on one of her new gowns)—"Norah, how does this dress tit?" Norah (without looking up)— "Not very well, mem. I found it a little tight under the arms."— Chicago Tribune. "Don't you think," said one of the doctors, "that it would be a good idea to have the study of medicine carried on under the supervision of the Govern ment?" "I suppose," replied the other doctor, thoughtfully, "that it might le turned over to the interior department." —New York Post. Timmins—"l—er—you know, I was talking to—l called on Miss Laura last night." Mr. Figg—"Yes, I know you did—the fourth tiiue in one week, I be lieve. Why don't you come and liv« with us, and be done with it?" Tim mins—"That's just what 1 wanted to see you about."— lndianapolis Journal.