SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W M, CHENEY, Publisher.
YOL. X.
In the reign of Queen Victoria Eng
land hail fifteen wars.
The enormous growth of the city of
London is shown by the fact that its
present population is given at 5,670,000,
or considerably greater than that of
Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome com
bined.
There are 536 authorized guides in
the Alps. One hundred and ninety-four
of them have taken a regular course of in
struction in their profession and have re
ceived diplomas. Thirty-five of them
are between sixty and seventy years of
age and six are over seventy.
Equatorial Africa promises another
treasure to civilization, announces the
New York Press. It is a much scented
plant, the branches of which carried
about the person will frighten away
mosquitoes. The smell of the plant is
neither unpleasant nor unhealthy, but
no mosquito will venture within its
range.
To use the phonograph for recording
the chatter of monkeys and to attempt
from such a record to evolve the lan
guage of the simians is something which
in the opinion of the Sau Francisco
Chronicle out-Darwins Darwin. With
such methods as these we ought to get
hold of the missing link before the end
of the century.
Why cannot, asks the New Orleans
Picayune, some able designer get up a
representation of the eagle that looks
something like that glorious bird? The
spread-wing idea is unnatural and ab
surd. It is only because of its antiquity
that it is tolerated. An eagle that would
spread its wings and legs ,in an attempt
to symbolize peace and w:vr deserves to
fee shot. A due design of an American
eagle at rest, perche lon a crag or limb
of a tree, would not be a bad one for
our silver coins.
A man by the name of George Ilulce,
at New Haven, Conn., was named as au
executor in a will. \Vhen the will was
probated two witnesses, through an hon
est mistake, swore that he was dead, and
the court had au order to that effect en
tered upou the records. A short time
afterward? Ilulce turned up all right,
but lie has been declared to be legally
dead and is so in law until the record is
changed. This cannot be done without
reopeniugthe case, which will cost some
money. This, Ilulce declares, he will
not pay, and as no one else has any in
terest in the matter he will probably re
main legally dead as long as he actually
lives.
The depreciation of farming lands in
England has gone so far, asserts the
Boston Cultivator, that in many localities
they are worth only half what they were
twenty years ago. Tiie low price of
wheat, and competition with other
countries in meat and other food
products, is responsible for much of this
decrease in price, though part of it is due
to a succession of bail seasons. The
United States now leads all competitions
in wheat production. But it is certain
that after a few more years American
increase in population will take all the
wheat we can grow. When that time
comes, not only English but other wheat
growers will share in the increased
prosperity of farming that must every
where prevail.
' The census bulletin giving the popula
tion of Texas by minor civil divisions
shows some wonderful percentages of in
crease of population, notes the Louisville
Courier. Journal. The increase over
1880 in the whole Stato was 043,774,
equal to 40.44 par cent., which is itself
a healthy percentage, though quite in
significant compared to the growth in
population of some of the counties.
Only sixteen couutics show decreases.
Armstrong County shows an increase of
2045.16 per cent.; Childress, 4600;
Collingsworth, 5S80; Hardeman. 7708;
Randall, 6133.33, and Floyd, 17,533.33
per cent. The elfest of these magnifi
cent percentages is somewhat impaired
by giving the figures upon which they
are based. Armstrong, for example, had
only thirty-one population in 1880 and
944 in 1890—an immense relative but
very moderate positive increase. Child
ress increased from twenty-five in 1830
to 1175 in 1890; Collingsworth from
six to 357; Hardeman,from fifty to 3904;
Randall, from three to 187, and Floyd,
from three to 529. There are still
counties in the State the population of
which is put down at 3, 4, 7, 9, 14, 15,
16 respectively.
A PARTING GUEST.
Dear world, how shall I say farewell to
thee
As from thy friendly house I go at last?
i,et me not like an unloved wanderer bo
From thy door cast.
No, I have been a little while thy guest;
Still there are light and music, down thy
halls
The laughing recognition of a jest
Risos and falls.
Thou hast with love and bread my wants
supplied.
And hurried on my hours in joyous flight;
But longer with thee now I cannot bide—•
I come to say good-night;
But leave not other friends who need thee
here—
Give me thy hand and I am quickly cone;
Thy lamps will light me with their genial
cheer
Until I meet the dawn.
—-Meredith Nicholson, in the Century.
A MIDNIGHT ASSIGNMENT.
tHEN Sandy On
ham, stone mason
and bailie, kicked
Fergus Cameron
stair of his home
Road, of Dundee,
of onions and a
clothes line where
his big foot could
not reach, he was an unconscious fact or
in one of the prettiest romances that ever
cast a fragrance over the life of a news
paper man.
This was the cause of all the trouble.
Fergus Cameron was the ten-shilling-a
wcek clerk at the salt pans. One and
one made two during the day, but one
and one m the evening lepresented only
one, for while the former might be bags
of salt, or pounds, shillings or pence,
the latter were the mutually sympathetic
hearts of Fergus Cameron and Maud
Graham, tho pretty daughter of the
Duudee bailie.
Now, the average Scotch bailie is a
much bigger man, in his own estimation,
than the President of the United States.
A chief magistrate of our nation might
allow his daughter to marry an ordinary
book-keeper; but a President of the
United States is no criterion in estima
ting a man chosen to fill the chair once
graced by such illustrious characters as
Donald MacTavish and Sandy Jamieson.
Shades of Nebuchadnezzar! who so great
as a Scotch bailie?
You may have heard of the Scotch
bailie, but I knew one. It was long
ago, but the awe-inspiring influence of a
personal acquaintance with him has not
yet departed, lie was a newspaperman,
so he said, claiming tho title by virtue
of part ownership with his wife and
Kirsty Buckiey, a crabbed old maid, in
a newspaper and magazine depot. All
in all, he was a great man iu the town.
Exaitiuation day always brought him to
school, and on such an occasion he gen
erally stood with the Latin book upside
down.
"Excuse me, Bailie," our teacher
would remark in his meekest way, "ex
cuse me, you have the book upside
down."
"Sir, don't you think a bailie can read
Latin upside down?"
Ilow we prayed that a kind Providence
in much love and mercy might make of
us bailies and newspaper men.
Do you wonder that Fergus Cameron
was kicked downstairs, and that a bag
of onions and a clothes-liuo hastened
his departure, and that three weeks later
he stood upou the deck of an Atlantic
liner, gazing with tearlul eye on the
fast fading shore-line of the laud of blue
mist and purple heather? An American
youth would have been happier under
the circumstances, for he would have
had Maud Graham with him; so little
respect has an American youth for the
exalted office of a Scotch bailie.
IIE FOUGHT THE BLAST.
Cameron arrived in New York with a
few dollars in his pocket and fewer
friends by his side. Ho spent the first
night in a cheap lodging-house on West
street, and in the morning set out to
find an old friend of his father. The
prospects of employment at his own occu
pation were by no meaus bright, but au
acquaintance on the part of the old man
with the city editor of a morning paper
opened for him the door of the newspa
per kingdom. Into the humblest posi
tion went Fergus Cameron. Naturally
bright, well educated, and with no end
of capacity for work, he cheerfully and
manfully faced his now duties with a
calm determination to turn tho battle of
lift into victory, and h» a bigger uiuu
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1892.
than a Scotch bailie. His was the old,
old story of success and failure, of fail
ure and success, but his application to
business and the excellence of his work
carried him into the good graces of his
superiors in office. The star that ruled
his luckless lot might have fated him
much that was disheartening, but its ad
verse influence did not extend to his busi
ness career.
*•::** » *.
A wild night in January, 1888. Snow
had fallen all of two days and nights,
aud the States were beginning to feel
the deadly effects of the great blizzard •
Fergus Cameron was in the West, plow
ing his way toward a country village.
A midnight assignment had fizzled out,
his only horse had stumbled into a ditch
and broken its leg, and his choice lay
between death in the snow and a struggle
toward the village. Every minute was
like an eternity; he seemed to be drag
ging the world at his heels. Mind
weary and body-sore ho fought the
bitter, blinding blast until overtaxed
nature, gave up the battle, and he sank
in the snow.
FERGUS CAMERON SURPRISED.
Two weeks later Fergus Cameron
awoke from the torpor of oblivion and
saw the world of light again. From the
large heating stove in his bed-room a
cheerful fire shot shafts of light over the
soft rugs on the floor. The surround
ings were strange; what did it mean?
He lay there looking drowsily about
him, and slowly recalled the incidents of
his terrible battle with the storm,
wondering to whose hospitality he was
indebted lor his salvation. His dream
ing was pleasantly disturbed by the en
trance of r graceful female figure. Who
was it? Cameron rubbed his eyes
wondering if it was a new phase of his
delirium. Another rub; another look;
were his senses playing him false? By
his bedside stood grace and goodness
personified in his old sweetheart, Maud
Graham.
***** s|c
They are married now, and all the
trials of the past are forgotten in the
swoet bliss of the present. Old Bailie
Graham's views have broadened consider
ably since he failed iu business and
crossed the ocean, aud no one is more
willing to admit that his handsome son
in-law is a much more important person
than a Scotch bailie who can read Latit
upside down.— I'he Journalist.
An Island of the Dead.
The captain of a coasting vessel that
lately put into Guaymas, Mexico, tells a
story of a strange discovery made by
him when his vessel had been driven off
her course some weeks ago. He sighted
an island not down on any of the charts.
He sent a boat ashore and the men re
turned and said that no one lived there,
but there were many houses and evi
dences that at one time the islaud had
been inhabited. The captain himself
then went ashore aud found that the
island had undoubtedly been swept by a
scourge of some kind, which had carried
off every living being. There were nu
merous huts showing that at one time
the place had been thickly inhabited,
but not a living thing could be found.
An investigation showed that the former
residents had died iu such numbers that
they had not been buried, but the skele
tons were lying around the island wher
ever the people had been when death
had overtaken them. In one hut were
the remains of seventeen people, wlulo
in many others skeletons were found iu
great cumbers. They had been dead
for such a time that the bones were be
ginning to decay. There was little to
show what kind of people they were,
but it is supposed that they belong to
some of the numerous island tribes
which were so abundant on this part of
the coast fifty years ago.— New Orleans
Picayune.
A Contractor's Little Scheme.
A local contractor has a peculiar
method of keeping tab on a gang of
Italian laborers working under him. The
men are known only by numbers, and to
keep truck of the doings of each in
dividual is a matter of considerable diffi
culty. They are all apt to sneak off
when the foreman's back is turnod, and
sit down for a rest. The unique plan of
the contractor in question is devised to
put an end to this lazy practice aud the
consequent loss of time. In the morning
before the gang goes to work each man's
number is printed in chalk on his
trousers. When the men knock off
work in the evening the chalk marks are
inspected, aud if any are found to be
erased or blurred, the unfortunate Italian
to whose trousers the blurred number
appertaius is docked a day's pay. The
scherae works admirably, as the men
prefer to lorego the pleasure of a few
minutes' rest rather thau lose their pay.
Heeord,
WISE WORDS.
It is sometimes hard to distinguish in
nocence from bluff.
Contentment is not knowing anyone
who has anything better thau you have.
Every manic trouble feels that his
friends are not as indignant as they should
be. '
Nearly any man will spend SIOO worth
of time to get thirty cents worth of re
venge.
Men are like littlo boys; they all like
to have a great big rag tied around a lit
tle sore.
The man who can win the reputation
of being able to lick everybody saves
himself lots of fights.
There is one thing you can always de
pend on a man doing, and that is the
thing ho wants to do.
Men and women are tho only things
ever created that the nearer you get to
them the smaller they get.
There is one thing in which the poor
man has tho advantage of a rich man; he
knows who are his friends.
When a girl who is engaged to be
married tells of tier engagement, it is a
very good sign that she was never en
gaged before.
Every woman believes that if her hus
band could be married to some other
woman for a week ho would know how
to appreciate her.
Marriage seems never so much a fail
ure to a man as wheu something goes
wrong at home that he can't possibly
blame on his wife.
It makes no difference how worthless
a man is; his mother thinks it no sacri
lege to delude the best girl in the world
into marrying him.
We heard two young men discussing
boarding-houses. "At the place where
I board," one of them said, "the homo
influence is better than the mcais."
Young people usually talk so much to
each other when they are engaged that
by the time they are married they have
nothing left to say, and begin to invite
others in.
A New Story of General Grant.
I was told a good story about General
Grant, the other day that I never saw in
print, writes the Washington coirespon
dent of the Courier' Journal. It will he
recalled that early in the war the New
York Fire Zouaves were a crack regi
ment, commanded by Colonel Ellsworth.
Every man in the ranks had been a fire
mau, and it was confidently believed
that Ellsworth's command was able to
put down the war without assistauce.
Tho Colonel was a young man, hand
some, gallant, burning with military
ardor and thirsting for military fame.
He was as much tne idol of the North
as Ashby was a few months later the idol
of the South. The Fire Zouaves were
the first troops to inarch into Alexan
dria, Va. Their Colonel was at their
head, aud after the town had surren
dered Ellsworth saw a Confederate flag
flying from a hotel.
Instead of ordering a squad to remove
it he bolted into the house, ascended the
stairway, went out on the roof and cap
tured the fla^; descending he was con
fronted by the landlord—one Jackson—
who shot him dead. Jackson himself
was then shot to death, and the affair
created more sensation than considerable
battles a few years later. After the war
a daughter of Jackson secured an ap
pointment in one of the departments
here. She was a modest, diligent and
capable younsj woman, and discharged
her official duties acceptably. In the
course of time a super-loyal gentleman
was putin charge of the bureau in which
she worked.
Nosing around, he soon discovered the
antecedents of the young clerk aud dis
charged her. She was friendless and
penniless, and as a last resort went to
the White House and called for General
Grant. He received her, and she related
her story to the silent man. Without
saying a word he took a piece of paper
and wrote: "The war against men is
ended, and my Administration shall not
begin one against women. Restore Miss
Jacksou to her former clerkship instant
ly." This was addressed to tlio loyal
bureau official, and the young lady is yet
in the public service. That was an ex
hibition of chivalry that Duriois or
Francis I. might have envied.
Twenty Dined Off Ono Potato.
George W. Scott has brought into the
Telephone office a half-dozen of the
largest sweet potatoes ever raised, per
haps, in the country. They are '-new
issues," and the six weighed fifty
pounds. The largest one was given by
the editor to a family in which there
wero eighteen members—the husband
and wife and sixteen children—all of
whom wero great lovers of potatoes.
Sunday they decided to have it for
dinner.
It was fried—a part of it at least—and
was amply enough for all the family, be
sides a married daughter and her
husband who were spending tho day
there. The remainder of the mammoth
potato was made up into potato pone
and furnished dessert enough for the
whole crowd and to spare.— TMeqwih
(Indian Territory) Telephone.
"I've lost my situation," remarked a
young man who had been working for a
Fifth avenue firm. "Is thatso?" "Ye?;
fired." "Why; I understood that you
worked in a fire-proof building.''—
PUUburg Chronicle.
Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. !
Steam pipes are made of ramie fibre.
Blotting paper is made of cotton rags
boiled in soda.
Scientists say that a grasshopper has
its ears on its forelegs.
A man breathes about eighteen pints
of air in a minute, or upward of seven
hogsheads in a day.
A company has been formed in
Chicago, 111., to manufacture a metallic
substitute for wooden railway ties.
According to a statistician of small
things, the human heart in a lifetime of
eighty years, beats 300,000,000 times.
Tho interesting fact has developed in
the case of table glass that the much-ad
mired iridescent film is slightly soluble
in water.
An underground hydraulic power dis
tribution plant is being talked of for
Berlin, Germany. Such systems have al
ready been successfully used in England.
A torquoise mine has been discovered
near the town of Ibrahim Olga about fif
teen miles from Samarcand. This is said
to be the third turquoise mine found in
Central Asia.
The largest animal known to exist in
the world at the present time is the
rorqual, which averages 100 feet in
length; the smallest is the monad,which
is only 1-12,000 of an inch in length.
There have been many collisions at
sea which have seemed wholly unac
countable, and it may be suspected that
they have proceeded from the not un
common inability to distinguish between
green and red lights at night.
It has recently been discovered that in
a cubic centimeter of milk, two hours
after removal from the cow, there are
9000 microbes, and in twenty-five hours
these have increased tc over 5,000,000.
Their number is enormously increased by
elevation of temperature. These mic
robes are harmless, and by many scien
tists are supposed to even aid digestion.
Field flasks of aluminum instead of the
ordinary glass flasks are being introduced
experimentally in the German army.
They appear to be scrvicable and strong,
and should they fulfil their promise tho
whole army is to be supplied with them.
In addition to their greater durability
the metal flasks are much lighter than
those of glass, their weights being re
spectively 450 and 500 grams.
Arc light carbons frequently posses
characteristics of the diamond, to which
in composition they strongly approxi
mate. The pieces of unburned carbons
which are thrown away are very ofter
found to contain very hard, sharp ends,
which will cut glass, and the mischiev
ous street Arabs have discovered this fact
and use the pieces for defacing windows
and doing other destructive work.
A comparatively new system of con
struction, the invention of Mr. Monier, is
being applied to the building of houses,
bridges, fortifications, reservoirs, sewers,
etc. It consists of a network of iron rods
covered with cement concrete, and tht
most remarkable feature in connection
with it is the great strength of the con
structed material, relatively to its weight.
It is also claimed that the material is
perfectly fire-proof and cheaper thau any
other at present employed aud that space
is considerably economized owing to the
comparative thinness of material em
ployed.
A Fine Game Preserve.
The Rev. N. M. Jurney, of Lecsville,
N. C., has associated a number of gen
tlemen with him, aud they have estab
lished in Cartaret County oue of the
finest game preserves iu North Carolina.
The gentlemen who own the preserve are
only worth $18,000,000 in the aggregate.
They have purchased 8000 acres of l.\nd,
and have posted it, to be used exclusive
ly for their own hunting. This large
tract of land is a vast forest, and it con
tains the finest fresh water pond in the
State. This pond is three miles long, aud
from a hundred yards to a half mile in
width, and abounds in fish. In the for
est there is au abundauce of deer, wild
turkeys, wild ducks, wildcats, quail,
squirrels, etc. Forty-fivo deer were
killed on this tract alone last season.
Mr. B. N. Duke, of Durham, N. C., is
President of tho company. The company
is erecting a handsome lodge to cost
s3ooo,and will stock their preserve with
game of all kinds. They will also sow
grass, peas and grain for the benefit of
deer, turkeys, quail, etc. — Ncio Orleam
Times-Democrat.
Water Purified by Electricity.
The Webster method of purifying
waste water by meaus of electricity has
been tested by Dr. Fcrrai iu the Hygie
nic Institute, at Munich, Germany.
During the course of the experiments it
was found that the water became purified
in about fifteen minutes, the orgauic
substauces being reduced by about one
half, and the suspended substances be
ing precipitated to the bottom. The
smell of the water was perceptibly im
proved.
While the results of the tests sho*v
that electricity does not at the present
time realize the ideal of water purifica
tion, it has two great advantages; first,
that very little iron is precipitated and
its removal is not so difficult as in tho
case of purification by chemical means,
and, second, the dissolved organic sub
stances, which are not precipitated by
any of the known chemical methods
hitherto employed, are at least partially
removed by the electric current. —Phila
delphia Record.
NO. 18,
Mr MOTHER'S H A.i" u
Buch beautiful, ueautiful lian<#i!
They're neither white nor small, (
Aml you, I know, would scarcely think
That they were fair at all.
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are those aged, wrinkled hands
Most beautiful to me.
Buch beautiful, beautiful hands!
Though heart were wonry and sad.
These patient hands kept toiling on,
That the children might be glad.
The tears well forth, a?, looking back
To childhood's distant day.
I think how these hands rested uot
While mine were at their play.
Buch beautiful, beautiful hands!
They are growing feeble now,
For time and pain have left their work
On hand and heart and brow.
Alas! alas! how near the time
Of pain and loss to me.
When 'neath the daisies, out of sight,
Those hands will folded b '.
But, oh, beyond the shadow land.
Where all is bright and fair,
I know full well these dear old bands
Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams through endless
years
Flow over golden sands.
And where the old grow young again,
I'll clasp my mother's hands.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
China has a revolution alle samec
South American man.— Boston Herald.
A locomotive travels better and a man
worse with a headlight. Oolumbus Post.
The detective, like the dude, should
be catchy in his makeup.— Biwjhamton
Republican.
How could a critic ever become fa
mous, if there were no minor poets to
flay?— Puck.
The successful politician must be sharp
enough to cut all the people who expect
favors from him.— Puck.
"How did your friend become a Col
onel?" She—"He married a Colonel's
widow."— Boston Beacon.
Put a handle to a man's name, even if
ho is a crauk. A crank without a handle
is of little use.— Boston Transcript.
Corporal (at the inspection)—" That
fellow looks as plump and lat as if all
the cooks in the town had fallen in love
with him."
It's the woman who hn« a brown plush
sacque on who can quickest tell a seal
skin when she sees it on another woman.
Texas Siftings.
The kangaroo is a funny animal. It
has four legs in all, but two of its legs
arc longer than its fore legs put together.
—Elmira Gazette.
Some papers make it the "grip,"
others the "grippe." Still a spell of it
I is bad enough no matter how taken.—
Philadelphia Times.
A—"lf I were a minister I should
hate to dine at a banker's table." B—
"Why?" A—"Think of three days of
grace!"— Yale R:cord.
If college men would only tackle the
world as they do their foot ball op
ponents, the rest of us would never get a
goal.— New York Ilerald.
How goodlooking some of us would
be could we only live up to the photo
graph which we regard as a perfect like
ness!— Boston Tramcript.
"Oh, mamma!" ctied Willie, on see
ing a zebra for the first time, "do come
here and see this poor little convict pony."
—Harper's Young People.
Don't pen missives to your best girl
on postal cards. She may have a sus
picion that you do not carc two cents
lor her.— l7nioi County Standard.
Marriage seems never so much a fail
ure to a man as whon something goes
wrong at home that he can't possibly
blame on his wife.— Atchison Globe.
When Strephon, hearing in the dark
A step, gave Bridget Daphne's kiss,
He evideutly missed his mark
By having failed to mark his Miss.
—Fuck.
A hermit and a tramp present about
the same general appearance; the dis
tinguishing feature is that one is a re
cluse, the other a wreck loose.— Union,
County Standard.
"My hair," mused Van Soiythe, as he
carefully consigned his two remaining
wisps to their appointed places, "re
minds me most painfully of a fool and
his money."— Life.
There are lots of them iu the world at
the foot of the procession who believe
they are at the head, though they admit
that the procession is going the wrong
way.— Atchison Globe.
"Did you ever notice how sometimes
the earth seems to smile at the sun?"
said the poetic young woman. "Oh,
yes," he answered. "The suu's an old
dame of hers, you know."
Saidso—"When Joblots made his de
but as a star the audience went wild;
the encore was terriflc." Herdso—"lu
which scene was it?" "The one in which
he was beheaded."— New York Jltrald.
Tommy—"What is a 'running ac
count?' Pa says it's an account mer
chants have to keep of customers that
arc in the habit of running away from
paying their bills." Uncle—"That's
one definition of it." Tommy—"ls
there another?" Uncle—"Yes. A run
ning account is, in some instances, au
account that gets tired out running
after a while, and then it becomes a
standing obligation."— Boston Courier,