SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Men of science say that the chemist •will dominate coming inventions. Canadian newspapers express disap pointment at the :uprisingly ;>mall in crease of population shown by the cen sus. Statistics goto show that the male population of the civilized world is fall ing farther and further behind the fe jmaJc. \j The helplessness of an Asiatic in time •of peril is proverbial, observes the Sat) Francisco Chronicle, but this trait was probably never shown more conspicu ously than by the Japanese who allowed his wife to be swallowed by a boa con itrictor. The fellow was a woodcutter, 't instead of using- his axe on the rep he fled and soug.it help. When he .eturned his betcer half had wholly dis appeared within the snake's maw, but the crowd lacked the nerve to attack the reptile and it escape.]. i A satisfactory test is said to have been made of a new machine designed for use on railroads to clear a way wrecks, whese simplicity and power are such "that a small boy would not have the slightest difficulty in pulling an engine or car out of a ditch" with its aid. It is the in vention of a citizen of Newton, Mich. It has been put to a practical use as n puller of stumps, which it is said to ex tirpate as easily as a clawhammer pulls tacks. A stock company is to be organ ized to put the machine on the market. Widespread interest has been aroused in subject of cruelty to animals at sea, declares tho New York Press, by the exposures of Mr. Williaui Hosea Ballou. The Montreal Star states that he aroused discussions iu the Canadian Miuistry as ■well as on both sides of the Atlantic,and gave rise to a question of international importance. Here is a British newspaper which indorses his attitudes toward British sea captains. Tho English Gov ernment promptly took hold of the charges made by Mr. Ballou and is fer reting out the offenders who arc its sub jects. Frank Babbitt, the Boston traveler, says horse-car conductors the wjrld over are well informed and afiiublo as a rule. Frank Vincent, the great South American explorer, says he has fouud women iu strange lands more courteous than men. Mungo Park had, of course, one exper ience at least which must have led him to an opinion similar to Mr. Vincent's. But what is one to think of those travel ers, asks the Atlanta Constitution, when Mrs. French Sheldon declares that the native men were kind and the native wo men she met in Africa forbidding and cruel, while Lady Florence Dixey has said more than once that she could travel all round the world unmolested but for her own sex? A mile from the village of Dwight, 111., on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, is the model stock farm of Mr. Prime, son of the Rev. Dr. Irenoeus Prime, once of tho New York Observer. ' It contains some 800 acres, is in a high state of cul tivation, and is one of the show places of tho county. It i3 not unusual for trains containing several thousand sheep from California to be switched off here, landed uud recruited by a few days of rest and pasturage on the furiu before being delivered over to the in Chicago. Prime's crop reports, u. '-4, at Dwight, are quoted in every large city between New York and San Francisco, and tho gentleman who seuds thorn out is equally famous for his hospitality. Says the New Orleans Picayune: John Doe owns a farm in New York on the bank of the Niagara River, and he makes An honest penuy now and then pasturing cows for his neighbors. Richard Roe has also a license from him to bitch his row boat on the bunk, with incidental right of ingress aud egress through the pasture. Some weeks ago Richard lost hi 3 chain and improvised a rope of hay with which to moor his boat. Now, Ebenezer Dick' 3 cow, pastured in tho lot aforesaid, is fond of hay, and smelling the fragrance of tho extempore rope, she waded into the river, climbed into the V>oat, chewed up the rope and floated down the stream over the falls, where she met an untimely death. The boat was also pulverized en i route to Queenstown. Has Ebenezor I Dick any right of action for the loss of j his cow? If he has, of whom can here- j cover? Has Richard Roe any remedy for | the loss of his boat, and if so, against ! whom? Will some one pleaseauswer? 1 TO A CLOUD. TTndar the tho bending mountain skioj 1 lay, with half-shut, dreamy eyes, In the s weetost mot th of spring, When a little cloud came, so soft and white, It seemed but a fleecy streak of light, Or the flash of an angel's wing. 1 I had marked the mountain's fltful mood, Its tall head wrapped in a flamo-red hood, Or its base in a misty shroud; But through all its cliffs where sunDeamg played, And in all its shifting light and shade, There was nothing like the cloud. So fair, so far, it seemo.l to float, With the airy grace of a white-winged boat, And the deep-blue sky for a sea. It might have been that an angol crew Wore voyaging the distant blue With tho Pilot of Galilee. 0 winsome ship of the upper 3ea, My fettered thought looks up to thee, In thy supernal place, And longs thine airy decks to tread, Thy cloudland-churted course to thread Through realms of trackless space. In vain does blinded science guess The texture of thy dewy dress With earthly mechanism! 1 view thee through another glass. Ana make tby borrowed beauty pass Through Fancy's finer prism. But, ah! no cloud-compelling Jove Will hear the prayers I breathe above To stay thy wayward flight; And while I strain my yearning evo, Thy trailing banners through tho sky Are bidding me good-night. William Hice Sims, in Lippincott. A WIFE'S TRIUMPH. BY RiriICLEY BItOWNE. "I don't deny but what I was considera bly surprised to hear of Joe's marriage," said Mr. Ailcsbury, sitting in his wheeled chair in the suushine. "I didn't kuow's he had no such idee in his head. But everything happens for the best, and the old place is clean run down for want of a nice stirnn' housekeeper. Berenice Stubbs charges'a dollar an 1 a half a week, and wants the washin' put out, at that. Things didn't go this 'ere waj in the life-time of my secon 1 departed—no, j nor yet while my first was liviu'. I'm j willin' now to confess that I was sort o' | turnin' over in my mind the idee of ask ing Pantheon Jones's widder if she'd any objections to share my solitary lot; but this marriage o' Joe's puts things in a different light. I wasn't sartin but what he was going to beun old bachelor. I do hope his new helptn! te can riz bread and Canning cakes, and soft soap. Bere- J nice Stubbs never made soft soap. She ' was fairly mining me with bar soi\p boughteu at the store. And there's ail my two deceased pardners' calico gowns upstairs, in the blue paper trunk, waitin' to be made patchwork of. Of course she'll be handy with the needle, or Joe wouldn't liev selected her." And Mr. Ailesbury chuckled at the prospect of"the good time coining." "is this my new home, Joe?" The bride stood in the clean-scoured, [ whitewashed kitchen, looking around iu j a .bewildered sort of way. She was slight i and small, with large blue-gray eyes, I and a delicate complexion, ller travel- ! ing dress was of the softest pearl gray, I and she wore daintily fitting gray kid ! gloves, aud boots so tiny tint it almost j seemed as if tho grass of the door-yard, I like the harebells of Sir Walter Scott's j poem, must have "risen elastic from her I tread." Her stalwart husband, staud- \ ing beside her. looked down with beam- j ing pride on her miniature beauty. "Why, yes, pet," said he. "Isn't it like what you had fancied?" The bride laughed hysterically. "Not in the least," said she. "But I ! dare say I was absurdly fanciful." "I guess," said old Mr. Ailesbury, "that Mrs. Joe had better change that finicky dress for something plainer, and help Berenice Stubbs with the supper. Berenice is sort o' plagued with ncuralgy to-day." "She's too tired to do much to-night, father," said Joe. "Tired! What's she done? I don't it hard work togo ridin' in the rail road cars. Do you?" Berenice Stubbs, a hard-faced female with u waist like the town pump, and sharp, twinkling eyes thatched with sparse white lashes, regarded Mrs. Jo seph Ailesbury with scant favor.' "Don't look a bit as if she could wcrry through a day's wash," said she. "These small folks is powerful wiry sometimes," said the elder Ailesbury. "My first dear deceased wasn't no taller than Mrs. Joe—but my! what a hand she was to turn oil work." When Mrs. Joe came in from the gar den after tea with n bunch of clover pinks in her hand, her father-in-law was ready to accost her. "Now you're here, Mrs. Joe," said he, "to sort o' see to thiugs, I've told Bere nice Stubbs she can go home for a half u week, aud I'm curious to find out what sort of a housekeeper you'll make." Mrs. Joe looked helplessly at her hus band . "I dare say she'll turn out a capital housekeeper, father," said he. "But you won't find out about it at present. I'm going to take her to Welland Falls to see Cousin Simeon Ailesbury. ller mother used to know Cousin Simeon years ago." "What, all that way?" croaked the farmer. Joe nodded. "Traveling's dreadful expensive." LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891. "Well, it costs something," admitted Joe. "And you'll have to stop overnight at some tavern." "Yes." "It seems to me," growled the old man, "that all this is a senseless waste of money. You'd both of you a deal better settle down and goto work. I didn't go mooning around the country when I married my dear deceased first, nor yet my dear deceased second. Life is ma&e for work, not for play." "Timo enough for that, father," said the reckless Joe. "A man doesn't get married—ordinarily, oftcner than once in a life-time." Mrs. Joe drew a long breath ot relief when sho fouud herself out from under the farm-house roof. "Joe," said she, "I'm afraid I'm going to be an awful disappointment to your father." "As long as you're not a disappoint ment to me," he retorted, laughing, "it doesn't so much signify." "There must be a deal of work in that house—four cows, a hundred turkeys, a flock of sheep, a poultry yard full of Leghorn fowls, butter, eggs, cookiug, washing, baking, scrubbing—" "How do you know all this?" asked he. "Miss Stubbs told me. Oh, Joe! why didn't you mnrry Berenice Stubbs?" "Look in the glass, little girl, if you want that question answered." "But I am so useless. You should have seen Miss Stubbs look at me when I said I didn't know how to make bread, and that I never had done a washing iu my life." "You'll easily learn, Ellie," "Do you think I shall, Joe?" A little cloud, "no bigger than a man's hand," came over the pearly frankness of her brow. "Did your mother wash and bake aud brew?" "Presumably she did. But I don't re member her; she died youug." "Was she your father's first dear de ceased?" Joe nodded. "What was the other one like?" "Tall and palo, with a cough, and a habit of taking wintergreen-sceuted snuff." "Would you like me to take to win tcrgreen snuff?" she queried. lie laughed. "It hardly seems, dear, as if you could beloug to the same race as those two poor, pale, drugging woman," said he. "Do all farmers' wives die early, Joe?" Joe did not answer. Ho was un folding the paper to read the latest news by telegraph. Cousin Simeon Ailesbury was tho vil lage doctor, a pleasant old man with a bald head and a gonial smile. Elleu Ailesbury made friends with him at once. "You are very like your mother, child," said he. "She always reminded me of a little mountain daisy." Ellen's lip quivered. "I am glad you speak so kindly to me, doctor," said she, "for—for somehow since I came to tho old farm-bouse I feel as if I were a fraud." "A fraud, my dear 1" The bright tears sparkled now. "I was brought up to teach," said she. "I can do nothing about the house. And Joe's father seems to expect me to be tho maid-of-all-work. Of course I can learn. I'd do anything to please Joe. But it's hard to think one is such a disappointment." "Humph!" said Dr. Ailesbury, "I'll speak to Joe-about that." And that afternoon when Ellen and Mrs. Dr. Ailesb' »y wero gone to look at a pretty case Je in tho woods, tin old man hud < ong talk with bis coir in's son. / At the er the weok Joe went b- & to the Ail' t>'ury farm. "Well r Sn glad ye've got thp gh gallivan' ,«g," said the old man, wi a a long b.eath of relief. "All the farm work behind, aud Berenice Stubbs ain't worth half what she used to be. I hope your wife is prepared to take right hold of the butter and tho poultry and—" "No, father, she isn't," said Joe, val iantly. "Ellen isn't very 'strong, and she has never been used to the hardships of farm life." "What did you marry her for?" snarled the old man. "To be my companion and frieud, father, not my drudge and servant." "Your mother warn't above work." "My mother was dead and buriod, sir, at the age of thirty—worn out, as all the neighbors tell me, by the hardships of her life. Your second wife, too, was a victim of the Moloch of work. I don't intend to lay Elleu iu tho churchyard at tbeir side." Mr. Ailesbury's brow darkened. "I won't have uo one in the house who don't earn their board," said he. "Very well," said Joe. "We'll rent tho little Barrow house down Locust Lane. It will be handy to my work at the carriage factory, aud Ellen shall have a strong servant to help her with tho house." Old Ailesbury started up forgetful of his infirmities. "Joe," said he,brandishiug his crutch, "if you've been such a fool as to marry a mere wax doll—" Just here his foot slipped; ho fell, a dead, heavy weight, his head against the shi<rp edge of the table. The sentenoe was never finished. "A month!" cried the old man, in a cracked voice, "a month sinaa I had that fall! Then I must V bean out of my mind. I must have had a fever." "Well, I guess you just have," said Berenice. "And who took care o* met* "Mrs. Joe, to bo sure, flight an A day. I ain't no band at Burma' sick people, and there was a hull week soma one had to sit up all night with you." "But that slim, pale-faced cretur never done it?" "Yes. she did. Sho said you was Joe's father, aud there was somethin' about your eyes an' forld, as you laid asleep, that reminded her o' him. And she wouldn' leave you a minute." "God bless her!" said tho old man, turning his face away, with a curious thrill at his heart. "Joe," said he, when his son came in a few hours later. "I've been very sick?" "Yes, father." "Aud they tell me I nearly died." "They tell you the truth, father." "The doctor suys if it hadn't been fot your wife I'd 'a' been under tho church yard sod by now." "I believe it is so, father." "Joe, she's an angel!" "Don't I know it, sir?" "Joe, I'm sorry I said all them things about her. Do you suppose, Joe, she'd stay here if I'd hire a gal to do all the rough work?" "Wc have planned, sir, to move into the Barrow cottage, and—" I "But you mustn't do that, Joe. ] can't feel to let her go," urged the old man. "All the luck would go out of the house, once the door closed on her. Ask her to stay, Joe. Tell her—" The door opened softly. Ellie her self came in. "Father, do you want me to stay?" she whispered. "God knows that I do, child!" "Then I'll stay." That self-same evening Berenice Stubbs was engaged to remain perma nently as house-worker and general fac totum. "Yes, I'll undertake all that," said sho. "Mrs. Joe mayn't know much about housekeeping but there's lot's be sides housekeepin' in tho world. M;-s. Joe cau do things I can't." And Ellie took her place as queen of the little home kindom. "Your wife must be a wonderful per son, Joe," said the squire, next week. "Your father is ncvor weary of singing Jier praises, and Berenice Stubbs tieard a word in her disfavor. And of all the people that I know, your father and Berenice are the hardest to please. Pray, is Mrs. Joo an enchantress?" "Well, I rather think sho is," said Joe.— Fashion IJa&ir. Ninety Miles an Hour. A mile in 39 4-5 seconds or at the rate of over ninety miles an hour is tho fast est run ever made by a railroad train. This unparalleled feat was accomplished tho other day on the Bound Brook rail roael between Nesliaminy Falls, Pettn., and Laughorne .by engine No. 206, drawing two ordinary coaches and Presi dent McLeod's private car "Reacting," which is equal to two coaches in weight. Other miles were reeled oil with speod as astonishing as this crack mile, and at the second of the "fly" the world's record was broken. The fastest mile was scored in 39 4-5 seconds. The fast est five miles in three minutes, 26 4-5 seconds. The fastest ton miles in seven m'nutes, twelve seconds, averaging forty tl reo seconds per mil*. The occasion f'»r this race against t.. n grew out of I fime good natured chah.ng that took Jlace at Judgo Green's dinner to the Farmers' Club at tho judge's residence in Easton. William M. Singerly was telling Mr. McLeod, the President of tho Reading lbulroud Company, that for thirteen years he had been making it a diversion to time fast railroad trains, and that lie had rarely traveled faster than fifty seconds. The result of the conver sation was that President McLeod made preparations for yesterday's speed trial and invited Mr. Singerly and a number of friends to ride on the train, consist ing of an engine aud three cars. The engine was No. 206, of the Wootten pat tern, burning anthracite coal. It bas five feet eight inch driving wheels, and is one of the ordinary patterns of fast engines iu uso on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It was built at Read ing, Pcnn., and stands to-day as a tri umph of the skill of American mechan ics. The locomotive was handled by Engineor John Ilogan, and tho fires were lookod after by Oscar Feshnor.— Washington Star. The Old Paint Brushes. "What becomes of all the old paiut brushes?" I beard a curious individual ask a New York painter of prominence recently. Tbe answer was a revelation to mo, as it will be probably to many readers of the Hepublic. "They ar3 gathered up here in New York," was tho reply,"by one individual, who visits all the shops regularly aud buys them on the same principle that the rag-picker buys old rags. He takes them to his shop, soaks them in a chemical prepara tion and bleaches them. He then soils them to tho tooth-brush manufacturers, who make them up into tooth-brashes of tho finest and most costlybrand." The Gossipor does not tell this story f(Jr the purpose of make teeth cleaning uupopular, and tie hopes that ladies with beautiful teeth will continue on the bust I of terms with their tooth powder and the little machine with which they apply it. —St. Louis liepublio. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Mouths SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Bottles are made by machinery. Bethlehem, Penn., has the biggest hammer. Chicago is about to add to its attrac tions a steel chimney, 250 feet high. Electricity is now being made to serve for use of headlights on locomotives. Eye blinds and dark stables arc said to be the greatest cause of blindness in horses. A locomotive is running on the Chi cago and Alton road which consumes its own smoke. It has been calculated that 100 laying hens produce in egg shells about 137 pouuds of chalk and limestone annually Henry Curtis Spalding claim* that the Mea which Greathead utilized in his pat ents for tunneling really originated in America. A French amateur photographer has mounted a camera on a kite, and gets remarkably clear views from a height of 100 to 150 feet. Papier raache oil cans which are now being made are very durable, and im pervious to any spirit or oil likely to bo used in a machine room. An expert electrician asserts that an electric train ruakiug 125 mile3 an hour would require 7000 feet in which to come to a standstill. A physician in Cracow, Poland, has made some remarkable cures of caueer with a new medicine called cancroin. Its ingredients have not been made pub lic. An English physician, Dr. Lennox Wainwright, affirms that a mixture of menthol and carbonate of ammonia has proven to be the best remedy for hay fever. It is used as smelling salts. Steel is now being used in the < in struction of largo chimneys. Its weight is about one-third that of a brick struc ture of the same conducting power, and much economy in space is secured. A hotel in Hamburg has been built entirely of compressed wood, which, by the pressure to which it is subjected, it is tendered as hard as iron, as well as absolutely proof against the attacks of (ire. A light and compact form of rolled steel or iron columns has been placed on the market. They consist of two I beams bont longitudinally at right au gles and bolted together with a stnall I beam between them. The high price of coal on Mexican railways has resulted in the adoption of a novel typo of compoutid engine and locomotive, and a consequent saving of twenty-five per ceut. in coal is obtained with only a slight increase in weight. Delicate electro-magnets are now suc cessfully used in optical surgery for the removal of pieces of iron or steel which have entered the eye. The attractive power of the magnet causes such par ticles to be drawn to it, aud they adhere when the magnet is drawn. The largest gasometer in the world is now being built for a London com pany. Its diameter will be 300 feet, and the height 180 feet. Its capacity will be 12,000,000 cubic feet and weight 2220 tons. It will take 1200 tons of coa! to till it with gas. The use of the search light on naval vessels when on blockade duty is being severely criticised, as it has been shown that they serve to show the position of a vessel when she would otuerwise be invisible, thus making an attack with torpedo boats possible. A novel idea in the running of street cars is that recently suggested and tried near liichinond, Va. Eight heavy springs aie used, which are connected to the axles by suitable geariug. A wind ing engine will be built at the ends of the Hues, which is four miles loug. Some of the monstrous cranes used in the Baldwin locomotive works at Phila delphia lift a big locomotive as easily as a mother does a baby. Each of them saves the labor of 150 men and docs away with the necessity of haviug a com plicated system of tracks for shifting the locomotives. A late invention, the cushion car wheol, is described as being a thick rub ber band placed between the tire and centre of the wheel, aud which acts as a cushion, absorbing all vibrations. The rubber is so attached as to make any danger from a hot box or from corrosive action au impro.. ability. A new Swedish glass is claimed to have important advantage for microscope and other tine lenses, giving greatly in creased power. The chief improvements over other fine glass consists in the addi tion of phosphate and chlorine, which impart absolute transparency, great hard ness and suspectibility of the finest pol ish. Au Electrode iu the Stomach. Herr Einhorn, a medical olectrician, has devised an electrode for entering the stomach so as to enable the operator to send a curreut of electricity from the in terior of the body to the exterior, or vice versa. The electrode consists of a fine wire, which is luclosed in an india rubber tube, terminating in a capsule. The capsule is perforated so as to allow the current in the wire to escape to the stomach, while preventing the wire from touching the coats of the latter. The patient drinks some water and swallows the capsule like a pill. The other electrode is applied to the skin n the ordinary way.— London Globe. NO. 2. OVER THE RANGE. Over beyond yon mountain range, That dim, blue, spreading line, There lies a country wondrous strange, A country that is mine. You may have crossed that highest peak, But, prithee, tell it not; The spell may vanish if you speak Of that enchanted spot. ' When I was young and full of dreams, And watched the red sun set, I thought I eautrht the golden gleam* Of rounded minaret. Of tower, and of tapering spire, Reflected in the skies, Then thought I (thought lit by desire), Beyond some city lies. When twilight faded into night. And o'er the heated earth Blew Southland zephyr, cool and light, Which waked new dreams to birth. And on the breeze a fragrance-flow That lingered in the air, This sweet conclusion thou I drew— The Land of Flowers is there. Now youth has gone—my other dreams Have faded into naught; But with the golden sunset streams Still lives one youthful thought; And fairyland my musing tills—■ It may not, may not be- But yet beyond that range of hills I will not goto see. —Flavel Scott Mines. HUMOIt OF THE DAY. A catch phrase—"Sick 'era!" A flagging industry—stopping trains. —Baltimore American. Gay circles naturally indulge in rounds of pleasure.— Baltimore American. A Western farmer recently threshed 1200 bushels of wheat aud two tramps in one day.— Boston, Bulletin. •'I have a misgiving in this affair," as the father said when he gave away the • bride.— Baltimore American. Bessie—"Aren't the breakers lovely!" Millicent—"Yes, but I'd rather they were brokers."— Brooklyn Life. The most popular reading nowadays are the cereal stories from Russiau sources.— Rochester Post-Etpres*. "Avoid the very appcarauce of evil" docs not mean that j'ou must cover up your rascality.— Dallas (Texas) New. When a genealogical tree has many brauches the descendants should keep shady about it.— New Orleans Picayune. "Your views meet with my approval," said the customer, as he bought some photographs from a dealer.— New York Journal. Never disturb a contemplative man. It is never safe to approach too near a train of thought when it is in motion. liichmonil Recorder. Jessie—"l don't see how a woman can kiss a man who chews." Jack—"She has to take out her gum first, of course." —New York llerald. "This circumstance adds weight to the step I am about to take," remarked the convict, as he glauced down at his chain and ball.— Baltimore American. First Fisherman—"What luck are you having over there?" Secoud Fisher man—"First rate; the harder it rains the drier I get."— Neto York Herald. "I see Jack and Mollie have mado up again. Why was the engagement ever broken?" "They had a quarrel as to which loved the other most."— Life. Shakspcrein the Kitchen: "Let everj man get his dessert, and which of us shall 'scape whipping?" sadly remarked the cream to the eggs.— Baltimore Ameri can. Hay Fever Victim—"Doctor, can't you tell me how I can find relief from this constant inclination to sneeze??" Physi cian—"les, sir. Sneeze."— Ghicagj Tri bune. "I cannot see why I do not get along better, I am not one of those fellows who want the earth, either." "No; what you want is the saad." — lndianapolis Journal. Quilter —"I supposo, Fakes, you have the eutree to all the theatres?" Fakes (the critic) —"Yes; but, you see, I usu ally give them a roast in return."—BJS tori Post. "Well! If that isn't the meanest trick I ever heard of!" "What?" "They have seut an ossified man as a missionary to the Cannibal Islands."— lndianapolis Journal. Bilkius—"After all, the country is the place. How different from the city! No dust, no noises, no everlasting grind of business." Jilkins—"Yaas; but above all, uo duns."— Grip. By and by some brilliant inventor will get up a traveling carriajgo for the use of distinguished men, to be propelled by the force now wasted in shaking hands en route.— Philadelphia Tinas. Tommy—"Paw,what are 'wings of the wind?' The wind does not have real wings, does it?" Mr. Figg—"No. That is merely a poetic expression for side whiskers. " — lndianapolis Journal. "I kissed her; why thoso pouting lips? I kissed her only once. If faultit was, 'twas small indeed." Ah, poor, shorted-sighted dunce. Who cannot see she pouts because You only kissed her once. —Omaha Bee. Papa—"l understand, daughter, that new suitor of yours is a baseball celebri ty?" Daughter—"Yes, papa, he is the greatest short stop in the country." Papa—"Short stop, eh? Well, I hope he will remember his specialty when ha calls on you."— Boston Courier.
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