SULLIVAN JM &■» REPUBLICAN W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. George W. Cable says that the Arneri cao literary taste is rising. In Algicra, North Africa, twelve mill ion acres of barien land have been re claimed and planted in vineyards. One of the finest possibilities of uni versity extension in the United States, argues the Washington Star, i3 in the aid it will give to ambitious workingmen. The number of students now registered at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, is 2(!91, the largest number ever attending auv American institution of learning, and leading Harvard by twenty eight. Charles A. Berry, a prominent railroad man of St. Louis, Mo., believes that the time is not far distant when railroad colleges will be established, as the rail road business "requires as much technical knowledge and skill as law or medicine." Secretary of War Elkins has amended regulations so as to confine the enlistment in the United States Army of boys be tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen years to the grade of musicians or to learn music, and then only to fill a known vacancy. The opening of the graduate course in philosophy at Yale to students of both sexes is an important step in the higher education of women. It will certainly lead to similar privileges at other uni versities which have hitherto denied de grees to women, predicts the San Fran cisco Chronicle. The poultry products of the United States last year amouuied to nearly $2OO, - 000,000; no less than 16,000,000 dozen eggs were imported at a cost of nearly $2,500,000, while the annual importa tion for the past four years has been $2,- 216,320. With these facts before them, marvels the New York Independent, some still call poultry raising a trifling occupation. What the New York Independent calls "a most timely article" appeared recently in a Japanese vernacular paper, lamenting the strong inclination which young men display toward political life. Men without- any aptitude for politics waste their energy in discussing current questions. Such persons are urged to turn their attention toward some other spheres of action equally important and noble. Such advice is greatly needed by the young men of Japan to-day, and a careful following of it would conduce to the future safety of the country. Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A good deal more gold coin would be in circulation if it were not for the fact that many persons hoard small amounts of it, though they are no more benefited by this saving than if it were silver or paper. These hoarders are chiefly women, many who keep every gold piece they find in the pockets of their husbands and hold onto every one that comes to them in auy other way. It is just as well that this should be so, as huudlors of much money prefer paper to any kind of coin. The ladies inay as well keep their gold pieces out of circulation at long as possible." Protection from the contagion of leprosy is becoming a serious source o( concern in L-tuislaua. A young lady, connected with ouo of the old Creole families of Louisiana resident in Ibcr ville, recently <llcd of the disease at the hospital for lepers in New Orleans, tc which she had been brought barely ii month ago. Cusot of leprosy, it seems, arc uot uncommon in the parish of Iber ville, and there it was the girl, who was only twenty years of age, contracted the loathsome disease. L>eal treatment was of no avail, ami as a last resort she went to the hospital in New Otleant, where her case was found to be past humau relief. Several farmers near Wapakoueta, Ohio, have been ills lo tile victim* of two very smooth fruit tree lueu through • very ingutilous scheme. A well dreised 111*11, driving through the country sell ing fruit trees, would atop at a farmer's house. While there he would be taken very ill aud ask the farmer to hand him a bottle of medicine out of a grip, which, however, the latter would not And. lie would then atk hiiu tog i ur •end somebody to town fur a proserin, tion, giving hiiu a fountain pen and u fruit tree b*ank oo whirl) to write the prescript ion, aud a* the medicine win of •uch a nature as to require the pur chaser's slguatuie the uusutp etiu 4 farm- j •r would tigu U. J''** here st 1 auger Mo. 3 makes his sp trance from the opposite direetioit, goiuj to town. Il« •tops for a drink of w,i m , aud »s lie is 1 coming back at onca and is visittug in the ueigborhood, h« h uku I lo take the | prescription to town. slioitly after he has j|om» Mo. 1 tin W hi* medicine, re i r», aud goes to loan. |n a few davt a not* t*< pay the ; two cnIES. Side by side they stand. These cities two. But a breath of land Between them lies; Above, the self-same skies, Serene aud blu?. One is full of strife And weal and woe, Quick with restless life; The other fair. Yet of its joy, or caro, No one may know. Never word doth pass. Nor any signs; Its streets are soft with grass; The light winds blow Like murmurous voices low Amid the pines. And a silence falls, Profound and deep; Though the sad heart calls In its despair. No answer comes to prayer For those who weep. I know not which is best Wherein to dwell — Life's strife, or Death's calm rest; Not I. who stand One side this breadth of land; I cannot tell. —Henry C. Wood, in Frank Leslie's. ALL DOLLY'S DOING. BY HELEN FOUUHBT GRAVES. fHE yellow sky barred with lines of dark cloud, the ground tight- Iro7.cn like a mask of iron— u windy March sunset—this was the time. The old nursery at Peakllill,lighted by the flicker of a wood fire—this was the place. Two girls, seated on a dilapidated tiger-skin rug, hugging their knees and staring disconsolately iu the blaze—these were the persons present. "Hasty pudding and milk I" said Dolly Peak. "That isn't much of a i supper. For my part, I think Arthur is lucky to be detained in town to-night. The bank managers can't, in ordinary decency, offer him anything less than sandwiches and coffee. I wish I was a bank clerk." "Do hold your tongue, Dolly!" said Margery. "Do you suppose it isn't as hard for me to be poor as it is for you? When I am the oldest, too, and the one that ought to be out in society 1 It's enough to drive oue frantic te be invited to the ball at Skipton Court, and not be able togo!" Margery sprang to her feet and began walking swiftly up and down the floor, her black hair gleaming in the firelight, her thin hands clasped. Dolly eyed her, half in sympathy, half in curiosity. "Perhaps," said she, tentatively, "if you had a dress fit to wear, and could <O, some one might fall in love with you?" Margery smiled a scornful smile. "Stranger things have happened,"said j she. "Margery—" hesitated Dolly. "Well?" "Don't people hire dresses some- [ times?" "Yes, if they have the money anil the opportunity, and no particular sense of dignity. Do you think I would wear a hired dross?" Once more Dolly hugged her knees. "Margery," said she, "it sometimes seems to me as if the world were out of joint. Our world, I mean. Here we are, as poor as Job's turkey or a church j moufe, or any other of those proverbially 1 poor things. What business have we to live in a big house like this, with only old Ilcbecca to take care of us? What business have we holding our hands | while our brother is working hard its a clerk, t.> maintain us?" "Because Arthur wants us to live like j ladies, in the house where our parents aud grandparents lived before us!" said Margery, curtly. '•Because we cau't do anything else." "Don't ladies ever work, Margery?" | "Dolly, dou't ask such foolish ques- I tions. Of coarse they do—sometimes." 1 Just then old Itcbecca came iu, bring- | log a lighted lamp. She drew the faded uioreen curtains, put a fresh log of wood 1 ou the tire, aud limped out again. She was very old, but she hail waited ' on these girls' mother before them, and still liked to keep up the setnblauce of, attendance. "They're ladies," said Kebecca, proud ly, "every inch o'thetn. Look at their white hands. Lo ik at the way they carry themselves. ' Half an hour afterward. Margery roused herself from a tit of abstraction, , to tluil that she was aloue. "Why, where has Dolly goue?" slu ; asked herself. Ami iu the same moment the door flew open it sudden gust of perfume freighted the air, and »>olly came in, with it ctiudle held high above Ler head like Lady Macbeth, a roll of old drapery | under uer arm, and a basket of delicious I white and yellow narcissus in her hand. " Where have 1 lieen 112" she repeated. "Why, every where! Up garret, down [ luto the old greenhouse, into the laud [ of the possible and impossible! Smell | these dowers, Mir,jeiy! ' Aud she held the narcissuses close to j I Margery's straight little Oreek uose. "Where did you get them, Dolly, at j ! this time of ytarl" cried Margery. "1 planted them In the greenhouse I I benches, last fall. I was determined to have somethiug to brighteu us up when the March whirlwinds set in. li'atruc 1 I that the »a»tie* v all broken, but I i lacked old blauktlls up, and made it | i weather tight, uu 112, tin suushiuc pours in ! Ilk* gold, au«i lh» old Harrison rw is j In bloaaoui, and there are lota of blue j . eyed pauaita, aud alt these • *ri t tptitt£ stars Well, I r< *«»ber th« storf we j LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1892. read about the girl who went to a party 1 in her great-grandmother's wedding 1 dress. Gitls in stories always discover dresses packed away in old sandal scented trunks in garrets, so why 1 shouldn't we? And I went up stairs and had a regular rummage." "Dolly, what a goose you arc!" 1 "I just am, Margery. Of course tl :re was nothing there but cobwebs and li ;tle bright-eyed mice, and old rags that ttio ragman's great-grandmother would hive been ashamed of. But I found this old 1 cream colored silesia back of the mahog any chest of drawers. It'll make better curtains for this room than yoL'der faded ' moreen things. Oh, Margery, how pret ty those narcissus flowers look in your 1 hair. Sit still a minute—only a min ute!" She draped the pale yellow stuff artist ically over Margery's tall shoulders; she fastened it with a knot of deep gold nar cissus; she showered the other flowers in a yellow drift upon the jetty braids ot her black hair. "Margery," she cried, gleefully clap ping her hands, "what a lovely straight profile you have! I shall turn artist and paint you, and call you 'Springtime.' " Margery uttered a sudden exclamation which made Dolly whirl swiftly around, and there, to her infinite oalbarrassment, stood her brother Arthur, the young , bank clerk, with another gentleman- Mr. Somerset, of Skipton Court. "Is it a tableau?" said that young ' man,smiling, "or a full dress rehearsal?" Margery flung off the pale yellow draperies—the narcissus stars rained down on the shabby carpet at her feet. "It's only Dolly's nonsense," she said, with a glance of smothered indignation at her sister. "Oh, but what a pity to spoil the j effect?" said Somerset. "Such lovely flowers! My sisters are besieging the | florists' to get just such blossoms for the ball decorations. Speaking of the ball, ' Miss Peak, we are determined that you ' shall reconsider your refusal to come, | because—" And Dolly, going from the room in j conscious disgrace, lost the rest of the j sentence. Down in the kitchen—the only other | room iu which there was a fire—there ! ensued a lively discussion between old Rebecca and her young lady. "My dearie sweet," coaxed the an cient servitress, "you can't?" "But I can!" said Dolly. "But you mustn't, Miss Dolly!" "But I will!" cried Dolly, with a stamp of her ill-shod foot. "You're a Peak, dearie, of Poak Ilill." "But you're not, Becky. Dear Becky, good Becky, if you put ou the old j sleighing hood and blue spectaclos, no j oue will know you. And poor Margery! J Think of Margery! Oh, Becky, you will—you must!" The soft kisses on Kebccca's cheek, : lip, brow, were enticing beyond every- 1 thiu-/. She felt herself yielding. "Li, child," said she, "dou't stifle I me! If I mutt, I must I" The next morning Margery Peak I sauntered down to the old greenhouse. "If the flowers are rea'.ly there," said j she, "I may as well pick them and send j them to Skipton Court. It'll be a neigh- , | borly thin/ to do, aud—Why, where are , ! they I Dolly, I thought you said—" 111 the middle of the old place stood | I Dolly in the attitude of a tragic muse. 11 They've all been picked and taken i away in the night," said she, dramati cally—"every one!" "Goodness me!" cried Margery. ; "Who ever heard of such a thing? Wuo can have done it?" "Of course," sighed Dolly, "the door is never locked. Any one could have done it." The night of the ball at Skipton Court j arrived. Once more the sky gloweifyel- j low as the sweet spring jonquils them i selves, aud the wind howled dowu the ) I chimney of the nursery. Once more j Margery sat on the old fur rug, thinking sadly. "Margery!" breathed a soft voice. "Dolly, are you theref" cried the , elder, with a start, j "Yes, I'm here. Listen Margery. ' When we were children, don't you re- ! member how we used to play at 'Making Believe?' Well, let's make Relieve now. I Suppose wc had a grauduiotiier, like the story heroines, aud she had a wedding j dress; would you like it to be like this ?" She shook out the clouds of a soft, j white tulle dress, threaded with woven gleams of gold, aud knotted up here and there with buucltes of yellow narcissus. Margery sprang to her feet ecstatically. "Oh, Dolly!" she cried. "Am 1 i dreaming?" "No!" cried exultant Dolly; "It's real truth! I bought the dress ami old Becky made it—after the pattern of your last white inusliu—iud I trimmed It with flowers—:uy flowers." "Child, w here did you get the luoueyl" "Becky sold the pausies and the nar cissusea aud the jonquils. The florists would have given auy money for more. ( They had a big order from Skipton Court. 1 Now, Margery, 1 know how to earn money aud help Arthur aloug. As for you—" "Well, as for met" "Why, here's the great-grand mother's 1 dress, and there's the ouchauto 1 balt -1 room, waiting at Skipton Court, aud the yellow gold pieces raining down, in the i the shape of narcissus an I jonquil*. Aud I shouldn't a bit wonder," she added | roguishly, "if Ihe royal priueu himself ! wasn't so very far off, because Mr. Homer i »et told Arthur that he item had seen auy oue as beautiful as you were that night wheu you sat iu tho flreli{ht j dratted in amber silesia au l crowue I with floweis. ijuick! let me help dress I you, Margery. I'lteru isn't a moment to 1 j I "You dear little good fairy I" cried I Margery, with swimming eyes. "Hut I 1 must stop enough to give you a j kins. How did you ever come to thiuk , of ill" Kor once iu a way thlugs happens I 1 just eloclty at they outfit!. Mr. Somer set was all• ely half iu love with Mar ; gerjr I'm*, a< ad the bail room e* pet lances concluded the other halt #f the deliciou* captivity. When she came home, early ia the windy spring morning, Dolly was bitting up for her, drowsy but smiling. "Well!" cried Dolly, rapturously. "Do you know, Margery, I've been dreaming in front of the fire here? A' what do you guess I dreamed? That Louis Somerset asked yo* to bo his wife!" Margery's sweet, flushed face drooped on her sister's shoulders. "It wasn't u dream, Dolly," she whispered. "It was the truth, and I think you must be a magician!" "One needn't depend much on tho magic art," said sagely Dolly, "if one keeps one's ears and eyes open. I knew , he was in love with you long ago. Oh, h»w sweet the flowers smell!" "Poor things!" said Margery, caress ing the drooping petals; "they are all withered. lie took one of them, to keep forever he said. I shall always love narcissus after this! And to think, Dolly, dear, that this was all your do ings!"— Saturday Night. A Great Apple Orchard. The Wellhome orchard of Kansn is becoming known the world over. This orchard is a piece of good, well drained soil, about one thousand feet above sea level. The trees were planted in trenches rather than in holes, the trenches be ing made by plowing out furrows nearly or fully ten iuches in depth. Trees are thirty-two feet apart, east and west, and twelvo feet apart, north and south. Corn was planted between the trees while young. After the trees have come into bearing the ground is sown to I clover. This is cut dowu every year I when the seed is ripe. The tool used in the operation is a home made rolling I cutter, consisting of a stick of timber twelve or fifteen inches square and ten I feet long. The corners are dressed of! ss as to form an octagon, and eight j knives, running the whole length, are I inserted, one at each corner. This stick iof timber is fastened in a frame, and ! revolves in it when pulled over the I ground by teams, its own weight being i sufficient to chop up the clover and chance weeds. The trees are all low headed, trained in pyramidal form, with limbs starting out about one foot from the ground. This is best, as the bodies of the trees must be protected from the fierce sun rays, otherwise they will be suu scalded and ruined. An ordinary | box trap is used for the rabbits, which j are very plentiful. Most of the insect I eueraics are decoyed by spraying with London purple. Almost live-sixths of all the fruit thus grown can be reached by I the pickers while standing on the ground. |ln the packing house the apples are carefully assorted by hand. Three and even fo jr grades are made. All unlit I for other use arc left in the field or fed ,to hogs. The yield oa the 225 acres in i 1880 was 159-1 bushels; in 1890, 79,170 | bushels. Tho Missouri pippin is the I best yielder, followed by wine snp, then I by Hen Davis, Jonathan, and lastly by I maiden's blush and Cooper's early. The I last named is not profitable.. The most fruit and most money tias been ohttincd | from the Missouri pippin, but the trees | are becoming exhausted and fruit small. | Hen Davis is now the leader. Tho ex ; pensea up to thti timo that the trees came I into bearing (in 1883) aggregated $20,- i 352, or about thirty-five cents per tree. Kent of land is not included in this, however.—Western Stockman. A Good l*ockct-Knife. The costliest pocket-knives manufac tured for sale are retailed at a store in New York City, which sells nothing but kuives. There are 1500 different kinds on exhibition in the window, ranging in | pri;e from five cents to $25. The $25 ' knife is the costliest kuown. The out i side plates of its handle are solid gold, and it contains two small blades only, a 1 nail file and a miniature pair of scissors. | There is a little hook in the handle by which it may be attache ! to the watch ! chain. The sales of the $25 knife are very slow. The largest knife in America is sup- I posed to be in Cincinnati. It lias fifty six blades and a chest of tools in itsolf, containing almost anything from a tooth pick to a cigar punch, from a pair of scissors to a handsaw. It is for salo At $5OO and weighs thirtcon pounds. The largest knife evir known wa* made by Jonathan L'rookos, a workman for Joseph Itodgers in Sheffield. It had 1821 blades.—St. Louis Kopublic. 1 A l'oet'i Definition of Poetry. Whether sung, spoken, or written, poetry, says K. C. Steldmati in tho Cen tury, is still themo«t vital form of human expreision. One who essays to analyze ! its coustituonts i* an explorer uudertuk ! ing a quest in which nnny have failod. Doubtless he too may fail, but he sett forth in the simplicity of a good knight who d iet not fear his fate too much, j whether his desert be great or small. In this mood smoking a definition of that paetic utterance which is or may become of ricord—a definition lioth de | feasible and iuolmive, yet compressed I into a single phrase—l have put together the following statement: I'ostry is rhythmical, imaginative language, e< .reusing the invention,taste, * thought, | e>sion and insight of tho hum.in soul. Helpfulness of Wire*. Ilundr- 1 of fortunes that hkvo been ascribed to tho industry of men lieur upon them tho in iras of a wife's hand, declares Re*, T. ll' Wilt Talmage. Hergham, the artisi, was as lazy as he was talonte 1. Ills studi > was over the rcorn where his ' wife sat. Kvery few minute* all day long, to keep her husband from Idleness, Mr*. Herg ham would take a stick and thump a ainst the ceiling, and her hus band would answer by sUinplpu oil the iliHjf, the signal tlwtt he w*s » Vawake aud busy. One half of the !• _ V * tad punctuality that s *5?" In | urn. *s of buaiueaa I V «re. lie. ghaut* si m the cetluig —y** W THE ROAR 01' GREAT GUNS. THE ORDEAL OF SOLDIERS WHO SUPPORT A BATTERY. The Kffect of a Terrific and Continu ous Cannonade Upon Man, Beast, Bird and Fish *T" ~T~ ERE are two field batteries— twelve, six and nine pounders I I in all —firing as rapidly as they cun be loaded. The re ports blend into, a roar, and you must raise your voice as If a hurricane was howling about you. You are not im pressed, but rather aggravated and annoyed. There's a snap to each report like the cracking of a great whip —a spiteful sound which reminds you of a dog following at your heels with his yelp! yelp! yelp! There is no more trying situation for a soldier than to be lying down in sup port of a battery. He is only a few yards in front of the guns, and he not only feels the full force of the concussion as communicated to the earth, from the "kick" of the gun, but the report itself seems to strike the spinal column and travel up to the back of the head. Then, too, there is the fear of shells explod ing prematurely or of grape or canister ter "dribbling" to cause wounds or death, and it is a positive relief to see a column of the enemy break cover for a charge. The roar of the guns does not linger for hours after, as is the case with mortars and siege guus, but you find your nerves ou edge and your temper spoiled for a day or two. The men who lay in lines with a battery firing over them probably endured more mental suf fering than the enemy at whom the guns were pointed. The fire of great guns is terribly trying for the first few minute;, but this feeling gradually gives way to 1 one of awe and sublimity. There is something terrific and appal ling—you feel yourself so atomless In comparison—that you would speak in whispers if the roar could suddenly ease. You are an onlooker; if assisting to work a gun, physical activity would take away from the mental strain. Wheu Admiral Porter got his twenty mortc.r boats, each armed with an eight and u half-ton mortar and a thirty-two pound rifle cannon, at work against the forts below New Orleans, and the big guhs in both forts had opened in reply, there was something akin to the souud of heaven and earth coming together. Tho mortar shells weighed over 200 pounds a piece, and the rush of them tnrough the air made one's hair feel as if it crawled. The venomous hiss of a big skyrocket was magnified thousands of times, to be followed by a crash which seemed to split the sky open iuto cracks aud crevices. Wheu the firiog-Bftd 'confltiued until ! all reports had been merged into one | steady tour there was little short of an j earthquake ou land or sea for ten miles j around. The earth shook as if a great steam hammer was pounding it a few j yards from your feet. If standing near j a tree, you could feel tho roots letting ge ! of the soil with a sound like bugs crawl- j ing over dry leaves. On the water great | mud spots rose up here aud there to i show where the earth, forty feet below | I had been disturbed. Iu the Mississippi j Hiver itself huge catfish leaped above the surface iu fright and pain or flouted ' ami were carried along with the current, 1 gasping for breath. Out on the blue 1 water air liubbles as large as diniug j plates floated tot le surface aud burstcd I with a snap, and fish of all kiuds exhi bited the greatest confusiou aud alarm, j Thirty miles away thi roar was like that of a gale sweeping over a pine for est. lloises aud cattle sought to hide away, birds flew about uttering cries of distress, and dogs pointed their noses 1 toward the sky and howled dismally. I Birds and fowls felt the air aud earth waves long before human lieings did, aud their actions were so queer as to be come alarming. The coming of the roar to those afar of was preee led by a jar ring of the earth and a moaning in the air. Springs overflowed, and the water in wells circled around at in a whirl pool. I'he wildest species of bir Is left the woods and thickets and came flying about the houses, an 1 rabbits dcterted their burrows and sought the companion ship of domestic am nail. The tliuii ler storms of a score of years comoined could not have rent the heavens nor dis turbed the solid earth as that cannonade did. If tits* beginning was painful aud ex as iterating the ending was something to be remembered for its grandeur. One mortal after another, one great gun alter another, was silenced by order. The re verberations had traveled through air aud earth and water a distance of fifty miles. They now seeme I to return back to the guns. The rent aud riven skies had kept up a constant moaning and cuuplnining. These sounds gradu ally died away, as a mau iu pain flu illy drops oil to sleep. The earth resumed its solidity again, the sun shoue forth in its old familiar way, and the bank of clouds pile I up 111 thi' west mid tinged with gold all along their lower edges seemed proof to the eye that the world still stood as we hail lived 111 it the day before those monsters awoke and tie ■uauded human blood and wreck aud de struction at the price of their silence.— M. ijuud, iu tU. Louis l(< public. Hon a IJOII Attack*. An Englishman from Bombay, India, says that the |>opular pictures of lious bounding a' their victims misrepresent this animal's mode of attac't. Like other fierce animals the lions as a rule endeavoi to avoid the s|Hir*smau until wounded, when, like the llger, they charge with a coughing roar. When lie does at ack you, the lion goes at great >|te-d close to the ground ami knocks you off your legs. Ilr sjieaks I esperieuee, as lie has killed many lious. an I was nearly killed by one thai lie hail wounded. He was dreadfully lacerated, but says II at Ut<' lion's claws aud teeth did not hurl his (mil so bsdly as he supposed I hey The '•-ll* painful |."** 'ocltf Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. An average mm breathes about 20,- 000 times in a day. A process has recently been discovered for making flour of bananas. When a belt gets saturated with waste oil, an application of ground chalk will soon absorb the oil and make the belt workable. A tricycle to be propelled by electricity and to run at the average speed of ten miles an hour has heen patented at Washington. Bismuth melts at a point so far below that of boiling water that it can be used for taking casts from the most destruc tible objects. Steel is now being used in the manu facture of fence posts. This is an inno vation on the old cedar method, and promises to meet with extended use. The Midland Railway in England has now running between St. Pancras and Bradford trial trains fitted with a hot water apparatus, supplied from the en gine, for heating the carriages. Electricity has now been put to many uses, the very latest being the working of a machine which it was said will revolutionize the art of stone carving. The inventor is a Colorado man. It has been proposed to make the upper half of war balloons of very thin steel, and the lower portion pf ordinary bal loon material, the whole so constructed as to hold hydrogen instead ot ordinary gas. The descendants of u single wasp num ber as many as 30,000 in one season. November is the fatal month which kills them all off, except two or three females, on whom depends the perpetuation of the race. No animal has more than five toes, digits, or claws to each foot or limb. The horse is one-too l, the ox two-toed, tho rhinoceros is three-toed, the hippo potamus is four-toed, and the elephant and hundreds of other animals are five toed. Sheet-iron kites, to enable a vessel when in distress during a storm to com municate with the shore, have been sug gested. It would Tie a curious experi ment. Of course, sheet-iron can be made as thin or thinner than writing paper. In its wild state the elephant feads heartily, but wastefully. It is careful in selecting the few forest trees wnic'.i it likes for their bark or foliage. But it will tear down branches and leave half of them untouched. It will strip of! the bark from other trees and throw away a large portion. Lettuce is a sleepy vegetable. It has ! narcotic properties in the milky juice that exudes wl.Jn it is cut. The proper ties of this fluid arc analogous to those of opium, but without the Utter's disagree able after effects. The rapid growth of lettuce in a cold frame diminishes tne j somnolent quality of its juice. The hop vine is said to be sinistrorso because it twines with tho motion of tho I »uu, that is, from right to left. Beans, ' mornino glories and all other species of | climbing plants, with the exception of 1 one of the honeysuckles, are dextrorse, ! turning opposite to the apparent motion I of the sun, or from left to right. After you have become tired of paying a tool-maker tc. forge and grind up tools, you will try to cast iron tools made out | of old car wheel iron and albuminum al loy composite, iu either a cupola or cruci ble furnace. They will take a greedy i bite and not get discouraged; aud will not require grinding so ofteu us steel tool/. Electricity for Health. The value of electricity in hastening the growth and maturity of certain vegetab'.o forms, au l in bringing out the vivitl colors of flower, promises to be supplemented by a value more directly useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro posed to bring young animals up ou sterilized inilk and food he opened the way to the idea that tho water supply of cities could be improved, aud be made perfectly harmless, by applying thr death-dealing ageucy of electricity to millions of Injurious jjerins floating in it. The sterili/. ttion of water sources by means of electricity may be far in tha future, but the fact that the work Is practically demonstrable is sufficient to show that great advances have been made 111 the direetiou of solving the question of water supplies iu cities. Not less important is the agent In destroying life in the sewers of the cities, and Iu tho great mass of garbage and waste which scatters around every clly whole cordons of threatening diseases. An other peculiarity of the jMiwerful agent is that it has results upon the general | health of people similar to those of tho sun, In crowded quarters of the cities where the sunlight is seldom admitted, electric light Is far more conducive tJ health than any other mode of lighting. It Is silll a mooted question whether it cannot be made to force growth in the individual as it does iu the plants and llowani of (he hothouses whore the light is applied uight aud day.— Yankee j Blade. Total rcllpse* of Hie Hun. Kvuiy year there must be two eelipsei j of the sun, aud there may lie Ave. There are |iartial ecllpsea, however, except iu j the comparatively rare cates In which the moon |wtsaos nearly centrally over the suit's disk and produ et a total obseura- < tlon of his light. Sine the Invenlio lot the spectroscope in IHIUI, there have been barely a score of total eclipses, and a liuuiU-r of these could uot Ixt observed lie cause the belt of totality fell at the I earth's polur region or U|HIU the oce ins 1 The hell of totality Is a narrow strip j never more than a hundred and save it y | miles wide —where Ihe point of th» lUOOII'S shadow falls upon the earth Total ecltpSMS rarely amour, therefore, at the same jMiinl of the earth. At I, HI lon, for esample, there has been no cs'lLmi since the year INU, esceoi that of l?I V uotie ' NO. 30. HEQAIWPD. Like the notes that stir and die When a harp string «nap».i» twafa^ Like a fading sunset eky After driving wind Mid rain; Like a sound within a •hell, V Like an odor in the air, Like an echo in a dell. Like a star, remote and fair, 0 my child, thou urt tome! And thy soul is linked to mine, As the pale moon draws the sea, Or the sun lifts up the vine. In the passion of my tears, In the blindness of my grief. Through the melancholy years I eschewed the sweet relief; And I stretched my yearning hand Through the dark, to clasp thee near— But to bind me in the bands Of an ever-haunting fear, 1 smiled on those beside me. And deemed I did thee wrong, And dreamt thou mighst deride me For sharing joy or song. Now thy face comes back to me, All free from tear or stain; A brighter image of thyself, Triumphant over pain. I sought it not, for heedless, I nursed my own despair; And so I hold it likeness Of reality most fair; No picture could unfold it To any stranger's eye; 'Tis like a starlet shining Within a winter ?ky. —Good Words. HUMOR OK THE HAY. A tell-tale—The Gessler story.—Life. The rabbit-hunter is a hare-braiDcd fellow.—Rochester Post. Outside of diplomatic circles the fish eries question is often purely ODC of ver acity. The time when a woman has no mercy is when she gets a mouse in a trap.— Rain's Horn. "My ideas," insisted the architect, "were all right. lam the victim of mis construction." It is nu aggravation for a hungry tramp to find only a fork in the road.— Texas Siftings. Teacher—"Hans, name three beasts of prey." Ilaus—"Two lions and a tiger." —Touts Siftings. One trouble with the world is that so many have more reputation than char acter.—Ham's Horn. Tho physician is the man who tells you you need change and then takes all you have.—Elmira Ga-Hte. The man with a "splitting headache" ought to get a job at m^yn^^rails.—» Binghainton Republican. "I hearCholly Slimpate is sick. Have you had any intelligence from him?" "Not a gleam."—Chicigo Tribune. The only way to win in an argument with a woman is to walk off when you have stated your side of it.—Atchison Globe. Mr. Gurley—"Are your family related to the Scaddses, of Philadelphia?" Mis» Scadds (haughtily)—"No; they are re lated to us."—Life. Rdith—"Lord English said my image was photographed on his mind." Ethel —"Yes, photographs arc usually made 011 blanks."—Yale Record. Fair, rosy cheeks had Kitty Grime*. Bright eyes and o|*n brow. She juiii id the rope iW)O times— She isn't jumping now. —Chicago Tribune. Barley (at church fuir) —"Let's go up and have that pretty girl tell our for tunes." Brace—"Not any; what's the use? Don't 1 know I'm broke. I ' Graphic. Shnrpson—"Old fellow, you look seedy. It is time you had a new suit." Phlatz—"l know it, but my tailor re fuses to—h'm—to renew the modus Vi vendi."—Chicago Tribune. "Very pretty surset," lie remarked. "Yes," she replied. "I dou't wonder that people write about the shades of evening. 1 had no idea that there were so many different shades or that they matched so nicely." •Icanis (the porter)—" Beg pardon, sir; 1 have bad news for you. Mr. Ca»h box died this morning. Old Skinner— "!>icd this morning! Now that's just like Cashbox. He knew this was tku busy season."—Life. "Yes," said young Hud.kin*, who sat In calm disregard of the clock, "I may say that I am a fixture in our office now." "I know, Mr. Iludgkins," she answered, geutly, "but this isu't /out [ nftice, you know."—Lansing N«ws. Mr«. Brush—"Has the Hanging Com -1 inlttro decided about your picture yet?" j llrush—"Yes." Mrs. Brush—"Are they going to hang it?" llrush (dubious) — I"I heard the Chair ian say he thought i hanging was too good for it."—Hrook I lyn Life. The Lecturer—"My hearers, I shall have to ask your indulgence for a f»w minute*. I forgot my maawerlpt, and have sent my little boy for il." His ion, mountiag rostrum (in loud tone ) "Mamma couldn't And the wriliu', but here's the took you copied it from."— Tld Hits. Overdoing It; POM) Mother—"l do | »o ho|ie that George has studied hard at ( rollege. I have tried to iiupreas upon I his mind the value at a liberal educa . lion." Father—"lam afraid, my dear, thai you have rather overdone the mat . ler. I had to tend lit in a check for $5OO to. day."— Funny Folks. The other day X —, the Bohemian, | on receiving sooie m«nci from a lieh uncle, took il into hU bead to square ofl I some of his most preaatng debt. ||« j first called at his tailor'* and heard that | the poor man had just died. Ilia »tdow, , all in tears, deaired to know the v tailor's | errand. "I have com* in pay my bill " jhe .imply troligl .. A hl" »nbUd o« Ihe widow, in r j.ioi husUnd hail I lh» shook hare brought Mm rouud,"- L*
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