SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
w M, CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. X.
Chicago is wrestling n<iw wicii ttie
smoke problem, but has not yet solved
it.
The products of the farms, mines, for
ests aud fisheries of the United States
are valued at $25,000,000,000 r. year.
The boundary controversy between
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, after
200 years, has been finally settled. The
early surveyors, explains the New York
Press, did not understand the variations
of the maguetic needle; hence the
quarrel.
In addition to the usual advantages
conferred by leap year ou energetic
young ladies, 1892 will give them fifty
three Sundays in which to employ those
advantages. The year is going t > be a
crucial one for bachalors, predicts the
Brooklyn Citizen.
Simou Wolf, of Washington, is prepar
ing for the publication of a list of the
Hebrew soldiers and sailors who have
done service in the wars of the Unite I
States, including the war of the revolu
tion. At the last annual reunion of the
Eleventh Corps of the Army of the Po:o
--mac, General Stahl said that half of his
old regiment "was composed cf Israelitss
with the courage of the Maccabees."
Many of the statesmen and public men
of Chile arc of pretty much the same
stock as many of our owa people, de
clares the Chicago Herald. Their im
mediate ancestors were Europeans, and
some of their public men are born Euro
peans. The new Chilean Minister of Pub
lic Works, Don Augustin Edwards, was
born in Chile of English parents. He is
a great favorite with the British residents,
and a Valparaiso newspaper says:
"Those who know him best love to think
of him as an Englishman."
Science has been meditating upon the
subject of the probable increase of the
population in the United States, and it
presents us with the3c startling con
clusion: Siuce 1750 the increase has
been from 1,260,000 to the neighbor
hood, in 1890, of 65,000,000. If this
ratio of increase is a fair basis for pre
diction we shall have at the time when
the ten-year-old boy of to-day shall be
forty years of age, in 1920, something
like 160,000,000 of people in the United
States, and when th it man of forty
reaches his seventieth birthday (1950)
we shall have close upon 400,000,000
population.
Joseph Wallace, iu the Popular Science
News, says that our climate ha* cer
tainly been much modiSed within the
past 2000 year 3. "There have been
fifteen c-imatic changes since the begin
ning of the glacial age," he writes, "each
change lasting 10,500 years, and each
change reversing the season iu the two
hemispheres, the pole which had enjoyed
continuous summer being doomed to
undergo perpetual winter for 10,500
years and then passing to its former
state for an equal term." The present
epoch of a more genial temperature at
this season of the yoar in this northern
hemisphere began about 1500 years ago,
and for 9000 years to coma, writes Mr.
Wallace, "we may reasouably expect a
gradual modification of our climate."
To illustrate the strength of the prej
udice auainst corn in Grjat Britain,
mention may be made of an instance iu
the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it
was proposed by a Member of the Poor
House Board to substitute maize for
costlier food in that institution. The
mere suggestion brought a storm about
his ears, because of his inhumanity in
thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food
which was only tit for pigs. American
canned goods of all kinds are largely
sold in Europe, but canned corn is al
most never seen there. If a demand
for it could be created it would mean
hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly
to the proprietors and workers of our
canneries. Agents of the Department of
Agriculture have been exhibiting the
cereal in this form also abroad with the
hope of teaching the people to like it.
Wherever corn dishes of various sorts
have been prepared and distributed by
them they have been received so favora
bly as to give good grounds for confi
dent expectation in this regard. The
use of the potato, the tomato and the
tobacco plant, all of American origin,
has spread through Europe and added to
the comfort and happiness of millions.
There seems to be more hope for corn
now than there was for any of those
commodities at the beginning
GOL> Bl_ECSii HbH.
She neyxr bur.iei with passion's fires,
She never craved a mawkish fame;
Her nerves were never strung on wires.
But sunshine followed where she came.
Her ways in school were circumspect,
And made her seem a trifle prim;
Her maiden manners were correct,
Her cheerful goodness naught could dim.
Although she ne'er disdained life's joys,
She ne'er forgot religion's claims:
In Sunday school her girls and boys
Were all imbued with life's grand aims.
In church she ne'er seemed sanctified,
And only tit for angel sphere;
While others talked of Him who died,
She worked in love for mortals here.
She married poorly, in the sense
That life's great goal is glittering gold
But for her pains had recompense
In love of man in (Jod's own mold.
And further on in life there came
A group of children in her home,
Who honored e'er their father's name,
And from her guidance ne'er would roam.
Old age came on, and children brought
Grandchildren to the sacred placa
Where mother, wife and maid had taught
Grand lessons to His grandest race.
Then "earth to earth, and dust to dust,"
Was said at last above the bier
AV here lay the flower of earthly trust,
Whose symbol rose to heavenly sphere.
God bless the homes such women make!
God bless the world where such are rife!
For hearts would love and never break
If but such shrines were found in life.
—Earl Marble,in Philadelphia Press.
PHILIPS FIRST SUIT.
BY EDMUND LYONS.
Bof Mable Stone?
That was the prob
were no nearer to a
than they were in j
pressively hot morn- ,
table was vacant,
and Deacon Stone
learned from a servant, who had been
kept awake by a toothache, that his
daughter had arisen at four o'cloek in
the morning and gone out hurriedly in
to the gray dawn. She had not returned
at nightfall,and when it was ascertained
that her aunt in New York, whom she
frequently visited, was ignorant of her
whereabouts, and that her brother, who
was trying to build up a medical prac
tice in Boston, had not seen her or
heard from her, a dark suspicion arose"
in Squalacket that she had run away
with Philip Mesruer; for Squalacket was
a New England town, and every inhab
itant in it had grown weary of compar
ing his or her own goodness with that of
the neighbors, and arrived at a comfort
able if somewhat monotonous conclusion
that the home virtues weie a little purer
and rather more securely rooted than
any others.
If there is such a thing as an excess
of righteousness, Squalacket knew what
it was, and a ripple of wrong doing ap
pearing upon the otherwise unruffled i
surface of its purity was like a little
flavor 01 onion lurking in a bowl of
salad. "Half suspected," it animated
the whole. So the people of the strait
laced town were perhaps unduly hasty
in grasping a forbidden fruit when they
declared, with something nearly ap
proaching unanimity, that Philip Mes
mcr and Mabel Stone had eloped.
To be sure, the circumstantial evidence
was strong against the young couple.
Philip was only twenty-two, and though
all his friends said he bad iu him the
making of a great lawyer, he had not yet
been called to the bar. This would not
have mattered greatly, because his life
lay before him, and his crusty old uncle
allowed him enough money to cover his
bare expenses, with the provision that it
.should all be returned, with accrued in
terest and by increasing installments, as
soon as his profession began to yield him
an income. Hut Philip, though not yet
a barrister, was too good a lawyer not to
be ignorant of the dangers of delay. He
had already, he hoped, carried one suit
to a successful issue. It was a suit for
Mabel's hand iu marriage, and the young
lady had rendered judgment in his favor.
But Deacon Stone had reviewed this de
cision, reversed , and thrown Philip's
case, on ciotion of appeal, cut of court.
He said hi s daughter was his heiress,
and, a3 he was rich, no penniless young
fellow, on the strength of his expecta
tions, should marry her.
Philip, however, was not easily non
suited. At a last interview with Mabel,
before he wert back to Philadelphia to
digest more law, he offered to release her
from her engagement to him ; but Mabel
was not the sor of girl to take advan
tage of his generosity, and perhaps he
knew that before he exercised it. Love
(especially love with a profound knowl
edge of law behind it) i- rarely quite un
selfish. She promised to wait for him,
if necessary, ut'til time was no longer
young, and he assured her that he would
return to Squalacket to claim her as soon
as he had mast3red the contents of his
first brief, which he expected with the
new yea',; for he was called to the bar
about Christmas, and in Jauuary the case
.oiCoUy TB. West W9Ul4.be tried in tU«
LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, MARCH 4. 1892.
Superior Court, and Colly, who was a
j friend of his dead father, was pledged to
retain him as junior counsel to show the
i jury that West had cut down a tree
which stood evenly on the dividing line
of the West and Colly properties, and
laughed derisively and scurriously railed
at Colly for saying that his half of the
trunk should have been respected aud
left standing.
"And if that isn't a good case and a
sure winner, darling,'" said Philip, eh-
I thusiastically, as he folded Mabel in his
arms," "I wonder what is. Don't you?"
Then he kissed her again, and said he
wouldn't weary her with the dry details
of the law. It was very encouraging.
And thus hopefully they parted. Philip
went back to Philadelphia by a night
train, and Mabel returned to her father's
house. But the deacon gave her a very
bad half-hour after supper. He said
Philip was nothing better than a beggar,
dependent upon his uncle's bounty; that
he was a mean fellow, and too dull to
succeed at any bar except a marble
topped one with bottles behind it, and
somebody with him before it to pay his
reckoning. He said many other thing*
about her lover that Mabel, being a high
spirited girl, could not stand at all. Sbri
went to her room when she could restrain
her tears no longer, and when she had
locked her door, and her heart
with such tears as she had not shed since
her mother died, twelve years before,she
decided that she could never again have
a home until Philip made one for her.
She had promised her lover that she
would never marry any other man; but
she had also promised her father that she
would not wed without his consent.
The situation was rather conflicting, and
only one thing was quite clear to her;
that was that neither Philip nor the
deacon should have an opportunity to
urge her to break either pledge. She
trusted her lover.and she trusted herself;
and above all, she had a higher trust that
her dead mother had taught her. So
when she packed up a few articles of
clothing in a small hand-bag, counted
her savings, which amounted to about
seventv-five dollars, and stole away with
the dawn unobserved by any one in the
house except the tooth-tortured servant,
she felt lonely, aud perhaps a little fright
ened, but not at all the guilty conscience
stricken creature that the deacon and
most of the pious people of Squalacket
felt assured that she must bo as soon as
her flight was discovered.
Deacon Stone was not, any time, a
man of many ideas. He had only room
for one now., and that his wayward and
rebellious daughter had gone to Phila
delphia to join Philip. He hastened
there as fast as steam could carry hiin,
and went at once to the law student's
one dingy room in Arch Street. He
found its occupant wrestling manfully
with the Revised Statutes of Pennsylva
nia, and the earnestness with which he
assured his visitor that he was quite ig- ;
norant of Mabel's movements as well as
his own distress as he heard of her flight,
wculd have convinced an unprejudiced
person that he spoke the truth. But the
deacon was a man of very fixed opinions,
lie called the objectionable quality that
usually won for him his own way "de
termination." His fellow church members
referred to it as "pig-headedness,' 1 but
that was only when there was no chance
of his hearing of the term so applied.
He now openly refused to credit Philip's
declaration. But the young man listened
to his rambling, vehemently told story,
and then with the same coolness and
deliberation that afterward greatly helped
him in the case of Colly vs. West, he
pretty thoroughly cross-examined him.
He learned enough about the scene in
the parlor the night preceding Mabel's
flight to give him a tolerably clear in
sight as to the actual state of affairs, and
his knowledge of the proud, self-reliant
character of the girl assured him that
when she returned it would be of her
own free-will. Whatever eflorts he made
to find her must be advanced -.vith the
utmost delicacy, for ho knew that any
thing like publicity would deeply offend
her. It was with great difficulty that he
finally persuaded the deacon to refrain
from taking the police into his confi
dence; and the old man departed,finally,
vowing that if his daughter were not
back in Squalacket before the end of the
week he would obtain a warrant for
Philip's arrest, aud raise such a hue-and
cry after Mabel as would lead to her dis
covery if she were still above ground.
Other and more important matters mu;t
have claimed his attention, for, so far as
Philip could ascertain, he made no fur
ther attempt to find the fugitive.
And so the dreary weeks lengthened
into months. Mabel's retreat was nearly
as much a mystery as ever—not as much,
for Philip received one short letter from
her, which relieved his anxiety. She
was in New York, and was safe and well.
She refused to tell him her address, but
promised to write to him again when
events justified such a course—say,when
the Philadelphia newspapers announced
that Colly had won his suit against West.
With this assurance he was obliged to be
contented; and in the early days of
December Philip was called to tho bar.
But while one man may lead a horse
to the water, twenty men cannot make
him drink; and Philip soon found that
it is easier to become a barrister than to
find clients. The case of Colly vs. West
went over until the next term of the
court. The parsimonious uncle bad
stopped supplies, and if the briefless
young lawyer had not succeeded in ob
t liuing a little literary work as book
reviewer for a newspaper, tho room in
Arch street might have wanted a fire.
It was warm and coinrortable enough,
however, when he hurried into it out ot
the biting air one evening; and, lighting
the lamp, he saw that two sealed enve
lopes lay upon the table. The one he
opened first contained a circular from a
New York land syndicate, setting forth
tho great opportunities offered to obtain
prairie homes where the wilderness would
soon be made to blossom like a rose.
The address on the second envelope was
in writing that was strange to him. It
enclosed a letter from a lawyer, an
nouncing the sudden death of his uncle,
and his accession to a reasonably largo
fortune.
And now where was Mabel? She
would not communicate with him, he
knew, until good news reached her.
She might learn of a successful issue to
the suit of Colly vs. Wes% but how was
she to hear of this windfull unless he
told her of it? He was a comparatively
rich man now, but he cared nothing for
his wealth if Mabel could not share it with
him, and, with a great longing in his
heart, lie took her last short brave letter
from his desk and laid it on the table,
while he drew the lamp toward him. It
was beside the other two envelopes, but
he knew her writing well, and looked
fondly at the address as he picked up
one that bore it. Then he opened it, and
drew out the despisod land circular. How
did that wretched advertisement get
there? Suddenly the blood rushed to his
forehead as he saw that the addresses on
both emvelopes were precisely similar.
Not for a moment did Philip doubt that
they had both been written by Mable.
But how could such a thing have hap
pened?
The young man had not wasted his
time as a law student. Ho knew how to
weigh evidence, and in half an hour ho
was on his way to New York. He has
tened to the office of the land syndicate,
which having a pressure of business on
hand, was still open, shewing people
how to acquire homes on the prairie. lie
had little trouble in ascertaining that a
Miss Mable Stone was ono ot its army of
workers who addressed envelopes, and a
young woman who was in the office gave
her address to him.
He found her with a long list of names
before her, and a box c out lining a thou
sand envelopes on the table. She was
about to adress the first when he entered,
and said, quietly, "Let us do it to
gether, Mabel."
In her amazement she nearly upset tho
ink, but when he had told his story sho
was satisfied, and allowed him to help
her. Splendidly they did it. Before
ten o'clock they had addressvd a thou
sand envelopes, and earned seventy-five
cents between them. Then he left her,
but on the following day they journeyed
to Squalacket together, and Deacon
Stone, though at first inclined to turn
them both out of the house, was mollified
.is soon as he heard of the altered aspect
of affairs, and was easily induced to con
sent to their marriage. A lawyer was a
useful person to have in a family, any
how, he said, and as he was thinking of
suing tho church trustees for applying
five dollars of the funds subscribed for a
new pulpit to the relief of a widow
whoso husband had been killed ou the
railroad track, it was well to be prepared
for emergencies.
Philip and Mabel were married when
the case of Colly vs. West was tried in
the Superior Court. Colly's senior coun
sel was unable to attend, and the brunt
of the battle fell upon Philip. He won
it triumphantly. The jury gave Colly
six cents damages, but that carried the
costs.—Harper's Weekly.
The Eskimos Surely Stnrvinj.
Hitherto the Eskimos have depended
for food upon the whale, walrus, and
seal of the coast and the fish of tho
rivers. The first three animals have also
supplied them with clothing, boats, aud
all other necessaries of life. Fifty years
ago the whalers, having exhausted other
waters, sought the northern Pacific for
whales, pursuing them into Bering Sea,
and carrying the war of extermination
into the Arctic Ocean. At length the
few surviving whales have been driven
to the neighborhood of the pole, and
their species has become well-night ex
tinct on the Alaskitn coast. Respond
ing to a commercial demand for ivory,
the whalers' turned their attention to
the walrus a.nd proceeded to wipe them
out of existence likewise. Sometimes as
many as two thousand of the valuable
beasts would be slaughtered on a single
cake of ice, merely for their tusks. Thus
a walrus is hardly to be found to-day in
those waters where so short a time ago
the animals were so numerous that their
bellowings were heard above the roar of
the waves and the grinding of the floes.
Seals and sea-lions are now getting so
scarce that the natives have difficulty in
procuring enough of their skins to cover
boats. They used to catch and cure great
quantities of fish in the streams, but
their supply from this source has recently
diminished owing to the establishment
of great cannaries which send millions
of cans of salmon out of the country an
nually and destroy vastly more by waste
ful methods. Improved firearms have
driven the wild caribou into the inac
cessible regions of the remote iuterior.
Thus the process of slow starvation
and depopulation has begun along the
whole Arctic coast of Alaska, and famine
is progressing southward year by year on
the shore of Bering Sea. Where vil
lages numbering thousands were a few
years ago, the populations have been re
duefcu to hundreds.— Boston Transcript.
A nice new umbrella is used up when
it is used at alL—Philadelphia Press.
Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Moitki
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial marble grows in use.
Plants are grown by electricity
American looms are being extensively
used in England.
In Prance and Germany horses are
now vaccinated for the glanders.
It is estimated by scientists that Colo
rado's cliff dwellers existed 10,000 years
ago.
Owing to its extensive use in electric
appliances the price of platinum has ad
vanced fully 100 per cent.
It is proposed to unite all the islands
of Japan by a system of submarine tele
graph cables. The estimated cost ia
§2,000,000.
It is asserted in some Italian and other
medical journals that protection has been
afforded by heifer vaccine against mea
sles, whooping cough and influenza.
A French physiciau recommends vac
cinating with steel pens, since ono could
easilv afford to use a fresh one each time,
and thus avoid danger of infection from
the Ixncet.
An automatic electric gas extinguisher
depends on the variations in the electri
cal conductivity of selenium when ex
posed to light, and turns off the gas on
the first appearance of daylight.
It has been estimated that the motive
power furnished by tho steam engines of
the world represents the strength of
1000 millions of men—that is to say,
twice as many as there are workmen.
A method ot purifying water invented
by Dr. William Anderson, and success
fully used at Antwerp, Belgium, consists
in passing the water through a revolving
cylinder containing metallic iroa iu the
form of scraps or tilings.
Electric roads cost less than cable or
horse car roads. The average cost of
the electric roads a mile, including equip
ment and roadway,is $46,697, while the
horse car and cable roads, co9t respec
tively £71,387aud §350,326.
A German physiologist finds that be
low the age of twenty there is no ma
terial difference between the death rate
from consumption among prisoners and
that among the ordinary population; but
between twenty and forty the death rate
is five times as high amoDg prisoners as
among the general population.
A curious fashion has found its way
into the manufacture of table uardware.
The handles of table knives are now
made of china to match the plates. There
are sets for each course. Those for poul
try have heads of the victims aDd little
fluffy chicks and ducks upon them; those
used with the game course have tiny
(lights of partridge and miniature long
legged snipe painted on them.
Recent tests in the use of the phono
graph in the Deaf and Dumb Institute at
Indianapolis,lnd.,show that it is useful in
concentrating sound upon tho drum of
the ear, so that many pupils, otherwise
deaf, can hear it. It is thought by the
Superintendent that he can by this
means soon teach the use of their voices
to many mutes whose inability to speak
is due to the fact that they have never
heard speech.
The Preslde.it of Mexlci).
Porifirio Diaz, the man who makes his
home at Chapultepec, is rather disap
pointing when one from the North gets
the first sight of him. While the palace
is undergoing repairs at an enormous
cost he makes his home in the palace,
near the heart of the city. It is a plain
building outside, looking much as the
other houses do, but on the inside it is
magnificently furnished. Diaz is an Az
tec Indian of the pure blood. He is a
short man, with black hair, oves aud
mustache. lie speaks but little Euglisli.
and never attempts it in the presence of
one from the States. lie wears a Prince
Albert in every day life, with a stand
ing collar and broad, flat tie. He was
born in 1850. From the time he reached
manhood he was engaged in fighting his
way to the highest position in the re
public.
Twice he flow to New Orleans for
safety, once returning to Vera Cruz in
the guise of a coal heaver. He won his
greatest honors at Puebla, when with
7000 men he defeated his opposition and
seized the President's chair. The last
election resulted in his favor by 12,000
votes. There are no political parties in
Mexico. When the day of election came
Diaz had his soldiers at the polls and not
a vote out of 10,000,000 population was
cast against him. There was no other
candidate to vote for. One of the first
great acts of this man was to free the
country of the bandits. They were so
numerous aud daring that no one was
safe. They would rush into the city,
seize a prominent citizen and carry him
away to the mountain for ransom with
out a finger being raised against t'uem.
But Diaz stopped this. He made a
contract with the bandits that they
should have good pay serving the Gov
ernment and their crimes forgotten if
they would leave their life in the mount
ains. They can be seen every day on
the paseo, where they stand guard. They
are mounted on tfne horsss, splendidly
equipped with carbines and sabres, and
are the mo3t courageous soldiers in the
world. Any number of thieves may raid
a bank in the City of Mexico and escape
to the mountains. Give them three days'
start and put these bloodhound soldiers
on their trail and not one will get out of
tho republic. The band knows every
inch of the ground under tho Mexican
sun. They arc faithful to Diaz,—New
York Suu.
JTO. 21.
THE HAPPY HOUSEWIFt'SSOMa
MONDAY
The clothes I rub, and rinse out and wring,
And harbor no care or sorrow;
Assured while they hang in the freshening
breeze;
That duty's well done for the morrow.
TUESDAY.
The garments pure I sprinkle and fold,
With never a thought of sorrow,
And merrily sing as the iron I swing,
This taßk is soon done for the morrow
WEDNESDAY.
As the dough I knead in flaky loaves,
My soul no trouble can borrow;
My hearty darlings they eat and live;
So gladly I toil for the morrow.
THURSDAY.
The needle I ply witb whirling wheel,
And banish all care and sorrow.
While viewing garments so deftly made
To cover my loved ones to-morrow.
FRIDAY.
As the grime and dust I sweep away,
My mind no trouble can borrow,
For deadly disease, which lurks therein,
Is routed to-day, for to-morrow.
SATURDAY.
The nourishing food I mix and stir.
And joyously sing, for no sorrow
Enters my life of labor for love.
Sweet rest cometh sure on the morrow,
SUNDAY.
1 goto the Blessed One who knows.
Every form of earthly sorrow;
He giveth me manna for my soul,
Blest comfort to-day and to-morrow.
•'Enough for the day Is the evil thereof:"
This promise a surcease of sorrow;
For guidance, and strength,each day I pray,
And joy cometh on the glad morrow.
—FrancisL. Fanchor.ln do ley's Lady Book.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The bank-wrecker may be bailed out;
but the bank itself goes down in the deep
sea of distress.—Puck.
You can't agree with a bigot without
agreeing with him in thinking that you're
a fool.—Elmira Gazette.
It is well for the email man to piactise
until he knows how to apologize grace
fully.—Somerville Journal.
Charity may begin at home, but it is
wiser for subscription-seekers to call at a
business man's office.—Puck.
It doesn't follow that becaise a man is
a master of dead languages he has a kill
ing style of speech.—-Boston Post.
One of the queerent things we ever
heard was regarding a watchmaker who
slept on a pallet.—Jewelers' Circular.
Both men and women have their fail
ings. With men it is ;he big head; with
women,the big hat.—Boston Transcript.
The snare of a drum is not dangerous.
It is the snare of the wily drummer that
you want to look out for.—Boston Post.
It does not necessarily follow because
a clergyman is affected that his hearers
will be nllected by his sermons.—Boston
Transcript.
Alter much solicitation, the German
Government has decided not to send the
Watch on the Rhine to the World's Col
umbian Exposition.—Jewelers' Circular.
Why does she wriggle and squirm around
And look so ill at ease?
Because the minister's looking at her
And she's trying not to sneeze.
—New York Herald.
Life is made of compensations. By
the time a man is old euough to realize
what a lot he does not kaow ho is too
old to worry over it.—lndianapolis
Journal.
Mr. Fligg—"Tommy, my son, do you
know that it give 3 me as inuca paiu as it
does you when I punish you?" Tommy
"Well, there's some satisfaction in
that, anyhow."—The Comic.
"I wish I hadn't eaten that apple,"
said Fatty, ruefullly. "Why, was it a
bad one?" "Well, I believe it was
spoiling for a fight, " and his face took
on a look of pain.—St. Joseph News.
He—"I)o you think there is. any
truth in the saying, 'Distance makes the
heart grow fonder?'" She—"l'm sure
of it. I like you ever su much better
when you are away."—Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Wickwire —"Just think of it!
Mrs. Bragg's husband accompanies his
wife whenever she goes shopping. Isn't
he good?" Mr. Wickwire—"H'mh!
I've got more coutldeaca in ray wife than
that."—lndianapolis Journal.
It is a little odd about life insurance.
It is universally admitted that the good
die young, but no company cares to take
a risk the bad man, when if the con
verse of tuo proverb be true, he ought to
live till all is blue.—Boston Transcript.
Mr. Blackhills (displaying his collec
tion of Indian curios) —"That is a speci
men of the war paint of the Sioux. I
brought it when I camo home from my
last trip." Fair Visitor—"Ah, yes, I
see; sort of a Sioux veneer."—Boston
Post.
Did it ever occur to you that Colum
bns was in a very melancholy state of
mind when he was on his voyage to the
New World? If not, remember what
the old song says,"ln 1492 Columbus
crossed the ocean blue.'"—Boston Tran
script.
Not Entirely Sure: Father—"Well,
Tommy, how do you think you will like
this little fellow for a brother?" Tom
my (inspecting the new infant somewhat
doubtfully)—"Have we got to keep him,
papa, or is he only a sample!"— Chicago
Tribune.