SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W M, CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. IX.
Judge Irving Ilalsev, in his memorial
address over tho grave of the famous
pacer, Tom Ilal, in Tennessee recently,
asserted that this peculiar stride was
used by horses 2500 ytars ago in Greece,
and that the proof of this fact is to be
found in the equine figures ou the mar-
Lies stolen from the Parthenon by Lord
■Elgin* _____________
■ "The New Orleans Picayune predicts
that the next move against immigration
will be against the Japauese. California,
it seems, is threatened with an influx of
a class of Japanese who, tho San Fran
cisco papers think, will piovo as objec
tionable as the Chinese, and an attempt
has been made, in a test case involving
four women who recently landed,to stem
the tide.
The elevated railroads in New fork
City, which cost less than $17,000,000,
are stocked and bonded for more than
$60,000,000. The steam railroads in
thecouutry cost, on paper, says General
Rush C. Hawkins, in tho North Ameri
can, $9,931,453,140, of which two-fifths
represent water. The street railroads of
the country, horse, cable and electric,
have not cost over SIIO,OOO per mile
but they are stocked and bonded up to
about $400,000.
' It is proposed to establish a Japamse
colony in California, the projector boiug
an ex-member of the House of Represen
tatives in Japan, who has wearied of the
tumoil in his native land. He has inter
ested several large capitalists, and is se
lecting able-bodied farmers to form the
first group of colonists. "From present
indications," comments the New York
Tribune , "a law will soon have to be
passed excluding the Japanese, for every
steamer sees a large number arrive. They
arc flocking into Hawaii by thousands,
and they have been attracted here by the
high wages."
r The American Indiaus want to be rep
resented by an exhibit at tho World's
Fair, and at the agencies iu the West thoy
arc rgning petitions to bo granted the
privilege. The petitions arc addressed
to the Pressident of the United States
and his cabinet, and to the Commission
ers of the World's Fair. Iu quite pa
thetic language they set forth tho de
spairing condition of the Indians, and
protest against the celebration of the dis
covery of America—au event so momen
tous and disastrous to them—without be
ing afforded proper recognition and a
chance to make an exhibit which will not
only serve as a most appropriate back
ground upon which to illustrate the pro
gress of 400 years, but will show that
the Indians themselves have made greater
advancement than 13 generally supposed.
Experiments by the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius seem to prove, observes the
Washington Star, that dynamite explo
sive? Grcd ltito the air from a platform
not stationary canuot bo depended upon
to explode so as to be destructive to ob
jects in the water or near it. It would
appear that further experimentation
should be on the line of securing a stable
platform that could bo maneuvered easily
and swiftly. The guns are so long and
the machinery so extensive us to require
a greater space thai could be secured on
a man-of-war devoted to other uses. Aj
the same time they arc not able, as the
recent experiments show, to fiud in a ves
sel of seventeen or eighteen feet of beam
sufficient firmness for a trajectory in even
moderately good weather, whereas the
requisite is stability in rough seas. There
is authority for the opiuion that torpedo
development should bo on the old line of
tho submarine torpedo.
The largest feo ever received for pro
fessional services in the United States
was paid when a check was made out for
$200,000 to William Nelson Cromwell,
of this city, says the New York World.
He hud acted as assignee of Decker,
Howell & Co., the bankers and brokers
who suspended payment during the panic
in Wall street last November, and, ns
said, Judge Lawrence in the Supreme
Court has confirmed the report of the
referee who passed upon the accounts
and stated that Air. Cromwell was en
titled to that sum. Mr. Crotnwcll earned
this $260,000 in six weeks. That was
at the rate of $13,333.33£ a week or
$7222.1(1 a day for six working days to
the week, and the remarkable part of the
whole transaction is that the people who
•a;/1 him the money think that he under,
mated the value of his services and
->ut of their way to buy him a valu
silver service worth a small fortune
Xppi.e blossoms.
We stood within the orchard's gloom.
In youth and courage high.
The apple boughs in clustered bloom
Were just a nearer sky!
And okte, a maiden in her pride,
A quaint old ditty sang.
With glance, half fhy, at him beside;
And thus t he burden rang:
O true heart, 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
One lingered, when they turned to go.
Whose path lay o'er tho soa;
A look, a kiss, a whisper low,
Afid plighted fast were we.
He would return to claim my lovo
When spring buds opened again;
And distant came, beyond the grove,
Tho woods of that refrain:
O tnifi heart 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay;
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
A ring upon my finger shone,
Ho vanished in the shade,
And the sweet stars looked gently down
Upon a happy maid.
That ring is like a star at night;
And in my loneliness
The pressure of its circlet light
Has seemed a soft caress.
O true heart, 'tis long to parti
Apple boughs are gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blowt
That art still away.
* * * *
I stand within the orchard's close,
Beneath the gUardlan trees;
And thrice the apple blossoms' snows
Have floated to the breeie.
Tlie summer glows, the red leaves fall,
The winter hearth-fires burn;
Spring comes, but never to my call
Or prayer dost thou return!
O true heart, 'tis long to parti
Apple boughs are gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
They say one should bo patieiit; yet,
If groping lost in night
Forever, can the soul forget
Tho loveliness of light?
I sometimes think that in yon sky
Thou art—so far from mo!
And theft, when I to God would cry,
I cry, instead to you;
O true heart, 'tis long to parti
Apple l>oughs are gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
To smile, to jest, to walk my way—
Oh, that is not for me!
To live till I am old and gray,
And ne'er thy face to see!
Thy voice! O Ix>ve, art thou a dream
By God in pity given?
Clasp, clasp me close, lest joy extreme
{Should open the gates of heaven!
• true heart, no more to part!
Apple boughs are gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow,
\V here our glad feet stray.
—Elizabeth W. Fiske,in lioxton Transcript.
ALMOST A CRIME.
It seemed as if Providence had deserted
Randolph Perry in his old age and ut
terly cast him off. For his wa«, indeed,
a hard lot. "We do not often find a case
of such great hardship in human affairs;
for, although he had begun life with the
brightest prospects, with abundant
wealth, a pleasant home, a loving wife :
and children, his seventieth summer;
found him stripped of all save the roof
above his head, and seriously threatened !
with the loss of even that.
Twenty long, weary years back his re
verses had begun iu the sudden and dis
tressing doath of his dear wife; and thi6
irreparable blow was soon after followed
by the elopement of his daughter Annie,
the pet and darling of his heart, with au
artful scoundrel with a shain title, who
had probably left his native laud across
the sea upon compulsion. The poor
father heard of her but once afterward,
and that was when the news of her sui
cide in Manchester reached him. This
visitation humbled him almost to the
dust, and brought with it a sickucss that
laid him prostrute for a twelvemonth,
and nearly cost him bis life.
lie rose from his sick bed and ap
peared to the little world of his acquaint
ance only the wreck of his former man
hood. Ilis first inquiries were forSi'neon,
his boy. No one would answer him at
first; they looked pitifully at him and
kept silent; but when lie angrily de
manded to know the truth, they were
compelled to tell him that Simeon, his
only remaining hope, had heartlessly de
serted him during his sickness, and, as
was supposed, had gone off to sea. Ran
dolph Perry did uot die with this accu
mulation of griefs; he lived on in a
hopeless, morbid kind of way; but no
one had seen him smile since he was told
of Simeon's desertion. That was nearly
twenty years back. lie had dwelt in
the house where he had been bereaved
ever since, with no society save that of
the woman who attended to his small do
mestic affairs.
This beautiful mansion, standing high
up on a knoll that overlooked the sea,
surrounded with spacious and cultivated
grounds, had been purchased by Perry
of its previous owner, who was his
friend, and upon whose assurance that
the place was unencumbered and free
from all legal claim he implicitly relied.
That friend had died penniless two
years after; and now, as if to remove
from his dreary existence the last ray of
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891.
sunshine, he found himself threatened
with total deprivation of his cstato. As
unexpectedly as though the heavens had
dropped upon his bewildered head, he
was notified by a lawyer in Londou that
he held for one of his clients a mortgage
upon the place, executed by the vender
a few months before the sale, upon
which the principal and interest
amounted to quite the value of the
place, and that immediate satisfaction
was demanded and expocted.
Then followed a tedious and vexatious
litigation, which resulted ill establish
ing the mortgage and declaring the pe
cuniary ruin of Randolph Ferry. It
was the last drop in the wretched suffer
er's cup of gall. The little means that
he could command from his broken for
tunes had been swallowed up in his un
successful defense of the suit.
The hour was about twilight; the un
touched meal had been cleared away, and
the old housekeeper had retired to her
chamber. Perry sat in the front room,
in a low chair by the window, and,
absorbed in his misery, lie noticed noth
ing of the storin that was conyug up.
lie had not sat thus more than half an
hour when he heard tho sharp unlatch
ing of the gate, and tho quick step of
feet on the gravel; aud then there was a
knock at the door.
A tall man stood without,his garments
clinging to him in wet folds and tho
water running from them iu streams.
The bid man help up the caudle to his
face and saw a prominent nose aud a pair
of keen eyes under a wide hat, and for
the rest there was a handsome, rather
benevolent, mouth, and a mass of au
burn beard. The man was a strauger to
him.
"Good evening, sir," he said, in a
bluff, hearty voice. "May I come in and
get dry? Such a ducking I haven't hid
since I fell off Freohaven Dock, long ago.
Will you allow such a wet rat iu your
house?"
"Yes, come in," Perry replied; and
ushering the stranger iuto the room, he
brought some kimlliugs aud light wood,
with which he soon made a lire in the
fireplace.
The stranger took off his coat and vest,
and squeezed the water from them, hung
them on a chair, and addressed himself
I to the drying of his extremities. The old
marl looked on in moody silence, and the
| stranger was compelled to make the first
advances.
"A nice place you have here, I should
thiuk. I saw it from the bottom of the
lull, before the storm ciiue up."
"Who aro you?" Perry abruptly
risked, "Do you come here on any busi
ness? Have you anything to do with
i "nit laseal Murch, who has robbed me of
•U my property? I don't know, sir; pcr
tnps I do you an injustice; but I have
■come embittered against everybody.
I'll ask you kindly, if you came here
spying for Issu? Murch, to leave peace
ably—and now."
"Ou my honor, theu, sir," replied the
other, much surprised at the questions,
"1 ilon't. know anything of March, ami
I'm above spying for liim or anybody. 1
came into Freehaveu, down below here,
this afternoon, in the steamboat, and ex
pected to walk over to Westlock before
the rain came on. I got caught, and I
made for the first shelter I saw. but if
you'd rather I would go"
"No, no," interrupted Perry; "I
wouldn't turn a dog out into the storm,
much less a human being. Stay till you
arc dry, and the raiu is over; aud that, I
think, won't bo before morning. I'll
give you a bed."
Fiudiug the old man but little inclined
to talk, the stranger bade his host good
night and went to the room assigned to
him.
It was theu about ten o'clock. The
storm was at its height, and it continued
for an hour longer, ■when it abruptly
ceased. The suddenness of its cessation
aroused the occupant of the room, and
wearied with his stress of emotion, he
took his candle and ascended the stairs.
He had no heart for anything but his
own dreadful misery; and he would pro
bably have forgotten the preseuce of a
stranger in his house but for a ray of
light issuing from the keyhole of the
chamber which ho had bade him take.
liandoli'i Perry paused, and merely
obeying a sudden impulse, stopped aud
placed his eye at t' 'j hole, lie had not
the least curiosity about this man, and
his act was certainly without motive.
But his eye had but singled out his guest
from the other objects iu the room when
he concentrated his attention upon him
with the greatest eagerness. lie saw him
sitting by the table, his back to the door,
and the candle before him. Four or live
piles of bank notes, new aud crackling,
were before him; and he counted them
over rapidly, replacing them all iu an
oiled-skin wallet beneath his pillow. In
a few moments more the light, was ex
tinguished and the heavy breathing of
the sleeper was heard.
Sileutly did the listener gain his own
room; aud as he stood there lie was a
man transformed! Could he have seen
his own face at that jjiouieut ho must
have been terrified at the fiendish pas
sions that peered out from it. He
straightened up his bo>ved shoulders; his
eyes lost their listless, hopeless expres
sion and burned with a baleful light;
and even his shrivelled, wrinkled cheeks
Hushed with the shame of the dreadful
siu with which he was struggling.
For Randolph Perry meditated murder.
With this horrible resolution formed,
the old man rapidly proceeded to its ac
complishment. In his bureau drawer
lay a sheath-knife eight inches in the
blade, which he had uever carried since
boyhojd, aud opening the drawer he
took it from it sheath, and holding it up
to the light saw that it was sharp. The
demon must havo had full possession of
him in that hour, for ho smiled as he
observed the glitter of tho bright blade.
Placing it in the breast of his waistcoat,
he softly left his room and traversed tho
passage. Listening at the door of his
victim, he heard his steady, regular
breathing, and noiselessly unclosing it
he entered aud advanced to tho bedside.
But his eyes lingered upon tho tatle;
ho could not withdraw them. They
rested on a largo family Bible, the gift
of his wife in happier days, and it now
lay open, as the hand of the strangei 1
must have opened it, to the sixth chap
ter of Matthew. At the top of the page
he saw drawn with a pencil in bold let
ters, but with irregular aud wavering
lines, as if by the hand of a child, the
beginning of the thirteenth verse:
"And lead us not into temptation."
A change upon the instant came over
Randolph Perry. His face turned dead
ly pale, his limbs shook so violently that
the light in his hand was extinguished;
and, with all purpose of crime banished
from his heart, he feebly tottered from
tho chamber that had witnessed this
strange scene back to his own room,
where he sank on bis knees by the bed
side and penitently poured fourth his
soul iu secret thanksgiving to heaven foi
his deliverance.
As Randolph sat at breakfast with his
guest, a chase drove up to the door, and
from it alighted Mr. Murch, the hateful
agent. Ho entered without knocking,
and unceremoniously addressed the old
man, paying no heed to the strauger.
"Your time is up to-day, old fellow,
and if my client still owned the mort
gage, my business here would be to turn
you out. Blithe don't; he's sold it to
somebody whom you'll probably seo here
soon enough. I was going by, aud I
thought I'd call in aud congratulate
you."
"Heaven will bo done!" ejaculated
Perry covering his face.
"It's just about time it was," Murch
rejoined, with heartless insolence.
"You've given trouble enouglit about
that mortgage, aud it's quite time you
was set adrift on your travels."
"Leave the house, you scoundrel 1"
roared tho guest, jumping up angrily and
menacing Murch with his fist.
"Aud who might you be, my lad?"
tho latter sneeritigly asked.
"I am the owner of the mortgage, and,
I am able aud willing to puuish you for
your cruelty to this old man."
And seiziug tho agent by his coat
collar with a grip of iron, tho strong man
spun him about like a top—slamming
liim with no gentle force against the wall
till the breath was knocked out of his
body; and then opening the door, he cast
him out into the wet, grass. A minute"
later the crestfallen agent rose aud limped
out to his chaise sore and bruised and
humbled in feelings. It was his first aud
last visit to Woodhamptou.
The stranger reclosed the door and
knelt beside the astonished old mau and
took his hands.
"Don't you know me, father?" he
asked in a trembling voice. "Will you
take back your prodigal son who de
serted you so cruelly? I never was bad
at heart, father; it was Kobinson Crusoe,
more than anything else, that made me
run away. I've come back now, after
years of wandering, with money enough
for both of us. I've paid the mortgage,
and I want to live with you here, at
Woodhamptou. My heart lias been
yearning to you ever since I set foot in the
house; I've been ready to reveal myself a
dozen times, but it faltered ou ray lips.
Forgive me now, father; forgive me,
and let us dwell iu peace and forget the
past."
Ilis voice failed him and his head sauk
on his father's knee, and the glad old
man bent over him with streaming eyes,
fondly smoothing his hair and faltering,
"God has given mo of His bounty when
I deserved 1 lis curse. May my Father in
heaven aud my sou on earth forgive
me!"
Curious Test for Ability.
A well-known down-towu contractor
has a peculiar theory. It is necessary for
liiui to employ a great number of men iu
his business, and they must possess cer
tain qualifications in order to give satis
faction. First aud foremost a quickness
of thought aud action is indispensable.
Everything else is subordinate to this.
"And the best place in the world to
find the very men I want is in a
restaurant," said the man a short time
ago to a Times reporter.
The reporter did not see why this
should be so, aud the man went onto
explain.
"When in a restaurant," said ho, "you
sec a man take up the bill of fare and
spend half an hour looking through its
contents you cau put that person down
as a man with no decision of character.
The man who goes into a restaurant,
throws his hat at a peg, and gives the
waiter his order as soou as ho is seated is
the man for me. You cau depend upon
it, that man can be trusted to know
what he is doing, and is the proper man
to put.in a position where decision of
character is an essential qualification.
"If I were the General of au army I
would submit all my offices to this
crucial test before intrusting them with
any important separate commands."—
Nev' York Timet.
| William K. Vander'oilt ha", built the
' bigirest hen house iu this country, spend
in*; $130,000 iu the struut»u*.
Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
Electrical tanning is satisfactory.
An Italian has invented a new fuel
prepared from lignite. It has been satis
factorily used for running locomotives.
The largest telescopic lens ever ground
in this country is now iu course of polish
ing at Greenville, Pcnn. It measures
thirty and one-half inches in diameter,
five and one-eighth inches in thickness.
The application of the microscope to
machine shop practice, for the purpose
of proving whether surfaces are true, is
pronounced by experts as being the best
method of obtaining accuracy thus far
suggested.
Au apparatus for testing the smelling
capacities of individuals was recently ex
hibited in Paris. It is said to determine
the weight of odorous vapor existing in
a given quantity of air. Tho invention
is called the olfactometer.
A man named Jones, of Cardiff,
Wales, is said to have patented a sewing
machine without shuttle or bobbin. The
thread is supplied directly from two
ordinary spools and sews through the
assistance of a rotary looper.
Moulds for casting iron can only be
made in sand. Iron and other metallic
moulds chill the ircn, and it does not
fill well. The great heat at which iron
melts will burn any other material, or
will stick so as to break the mould.
One of tho novelties at tho St. Pau
cras Exhibition, in London, lately, was
a sausage machine, driven by electric
motor. Iu conjunction with this ma
chine it has been proposed to employ
au electric heatiug attachment, whereby
the savory dish can be delivered cooked.
A successful exhibition was given iu
Philadelphia recently, of the system of
storage batteries for propelling passen
ger lailway cars, as introduced by Messrs.
Wright & Starr. A special feature of
the new system is the recharging of tho
batteries by a retrograde movement of
the motor.
The rim from Baltimore to Phila
delphia of the Royal Blue Liue Express
is made behind what is said to he the
largest engine iu this country. It weighs
187,000 pounds, and runs on four driv
ing wheels six feet six inches in diam
eter. It is black, without u particle of
bright color about it.
A new method of ventilating railway
carriages and preventing dust from en
tering with the air ban appeared in
Prance. The more quick/y ttio irain
moves the more rapidly the apparatus
works. The air is made to traverse a
receptacle containing water, which cools
it and relieves it of dust, after which it
goes through another filtering before en
tering the carriage.
State Entomologist Lintner, who was
summoned to Catskill recently, to examine
n new pest which was ruining the pear
crop of that place, fiuds that an area
three miles in diameter has been occu
pied by the most dangerous fruit pest
that has visited the State in years. It
is the Diplosis Pyrivora, or pear midge,
which is common in Europe, but first
made its appearance in this country ten
years ago at Meriden, Conn.
The great electric searchlights of the
modern man-of-war may have an offen
sive as well as defensive value. There
was a sham attack upon Cherbourg the
other day, by a squadron of the French
navy, and during the manoeuvres the
torpedo boat Edmond Fontaine was run
into by a cruiser and sent to the bottom.
Her officers report that they were so
dazzled by the searchlight of one cruiser
that they were utterly unable to sec the
ship that struck them, and so could
make no cllort to get out of her way.
A Remarkable Casp.
Iu November, 18S9, Thomas F. Da
vis, a brakeman of the Georgia Pacific
Railroad, was struck by a projecting
rock in Tates Cut, Ala., while clitnbiug
up the side of the caboose, and was se
riously injured. The rock which pro
jected struck him on the side aud hip.
llis injuries beside bruises were of au in
ternal nature. He suffered a great deal.
Attending physicians soon discovered
that Davis's heart was moved from the
left to the nsjht side. His entire insides
were disarranged aud began moving
from one side to the other. In the course
of time his heart moved eight inches
from its normal position and was on the
right side. Davis dwindled from a hearty,
robust mau to an invalid. The other
night he died. The case is pronounced
a most remarkable one by physicians.
Davis was about twenty-five years old,
aud unmarried.— New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
Pickpockets Are Born.
A man must have the physical endow
ment to be a pickpocket, just as a mau
must have a certain mental endowment
to be a poet, says a noted criminal in the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The lining of
the pocket must be tuken hold of about
in inch from the top on the inside. It
must be drawn up easily and quickly at
the same time.
Not more than hnlf a dozen move
ments of the lingers should be necessary
to get the lining out far enough. With
the lining, of course, will come the
pockctbook, and this should never be
touched by the fingers until it is almost
ready to drop into the hand of the thief.
Some experts never touch the book
until it is in the hand. Now, the fingers
to do this should bo slender; not neces
sarily long, but thin and flexible, and
the, best pickpockets are those whose
linger ends are naturally moist.
NO. 41.
A DAY IN SONGLAND.
Wandering through the land of Spring,
Have you heard its voices sing?
Throb of earth, swift whir of wing.
Skimming, scudding clouds which fling
Harmony
From the glad green of the hills.
And broad blue the sky which fills; |
In awakened, gushing rills.
Nature's hidden music trills
Melody.
Where the purple lilacs sway,
Blossoms bloom, then float away!'
Listen to the song of May,
Hint and hush and whisper say,
' Heart, but see
Summer laud of flowers not far, ,
Where gold gates of sous ajar
Swing back noiselasslv afar;
But! and bloom and music aro
All for thee."
But from distcmeo taintly swell
Tink and tone of evening boll!
Day is dying, shadows tell
Of a lingering farewell
To the light!
Buthod in showers of ruddy gold.
Sunset's radiant realms unfold;
Now from twilight hands is rolled 'j
Eventide, by stars foretold;
Then—the night.
—Philadelphia Time*.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A. stirring appeal.—Spoon, please. ,
The light of the world—Caucasians.
Above his business—The boss.— Puck.
"What's Tim doing now?" "Time."
The smaller the rooster the louder the
crow.
The bogus dollar is hard to push; but
it often is lead.
Au overdrawn account —The sensa
tional reporter's table.— Puck.
You can never lift a mortgage by pull
ing at a bottle, — Hlrnira Gazette.
The man that "gets out on a foul"
isn't necessarily a chicken. — Loicell Mail.
The xylophone player is the fellow
who makes the "woods ring."—States
man.
Sonic of the new cannon which shoot
twelve miles won't shoot anything else.—
Washington Star.
A man would do pretty poor fishing if
lie used a book-worm for bait.—Ding
hamton RepuVUnin.
Toooliar "Vow. t.i'H, »')>« '-in tol l
mc the plural of 'child?' " The Bright
Pupil—"Twins."— Pari* Figaro.
It is said the first anchors were invent
ed in 587. Tlicy have been a drag on
the maritime aerviso ever since.—Pica
yune.
You can never judge liow well a man
can keep a secret by the way he keeps
one that is unfavorable to him.— Atchison
Globe.
"Did you enjoy the circus, Jolrnuy?"
"Very much. I had a ride on a big
leather animal with u snake ouhis nose."
—Puck.
Farmer—"Did that tiamp over yonder
leave this house?" "Wife—"Yes; but he
took our money with him."— New York
Journal.
"What is a skin game?" asks a cor
respondent. A skin game is one where
the other man makes the money.— New
York Recorder.
The editor of n comic paper i9 said to
Vie insane. One would think a man with,
all his wits about huu couldn't go iu
sane.—Statesman.
In Boston men are beginning to
emancipate themselves from the gentler
sex. A man has started a millinery
tore.— Texas Siftingt.
Verv petite ladies doubtless intend to
be as truthful as any one; but don't you
notice that they almost invariably drew,
the long beau?— Puck.
Tho things that promise roost succ3S3
Will vanish while we look;
It ulways is the biggast fish
That wriggles oft tho liook.
Washington Post.
Boifgs—"An American girl always
makes a bargain when she marries a
lord." Focfg—"llow do you make that
out?" Boggs —"Because he is cheap, at
any price."— Life.
Doctor—"There, get that prescription
filled, and take a teaspoonful three times
a day before meals." Pauper Patient—
"But, doctor, I don't get but one meal in
two days."— Texas Siftinqs.
"When a lady of uncertain age tells you
coyly that she has seen twenty-seven
summers it is altogether impolite to ysk
her if she remembers how the last one of
the twenty-seven looked.— Somereille
Journal.
"No, mum," said Bridget, "I don't
bring any reference. I don't think you
would care for the opinions of some of
the persons I have been working for."
And Bridget was promptly engaged.—
Neie York liccorder.
Mizpah Say (the evening before her
wedding)—" Suppose the miuister should
want to kiss me after the ceremony,
dear, what shall I do?" Miss Vinnie
Garr (her dear friend) —"He won't want
to."— New York Press.
llow Celluloid is Made.
The base of celluloid is common paper;
by action of sulphurio and nitric acid it
is cliangod to guu-cotton, then dried,
ground and mixed with from twenty to
l'orty per cent, of camphor, after which
it is ground fine, colored with powder
colors, eiist in sheets, pressed very hard!
and at hist baked between sets of super-'
heated roller*.