SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. George W. Cable says that the Ameri can literary taste is rising. In Algicra, North Africa, twelve mill ion acres of banen land have beeu 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 2C91, the largest number ever attending any 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. Tho opening of tho 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 amounted to nearly $200,- 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 82,- 216,32t>. 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 auy 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 wero 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 any other way. It is just as well that this should be so, as huudlor? of much money prefer paper to any kind of coin. The ladies may as well keep their gold pieces out of circulation at long as possible." Protection from the contusion of leprosy is becoming a serioui source of concern in Louisiana. A young lady, connected with oue of the old Creole families of Louisiana resident in Iber vllle, recently died of tho disease at the hospital for lepers in New Orleans, tc which she had been brought barely n month ago. Caaei of leprosy, It seems, are uot uncommon Iu the parish of Iber ville, aud there it was the girl, who wa« only twenty years of nge, contracted the loathsome disease. I, teal treatment was of no nvnil, and as n last resort she weui to the hospital iu New Orleans wherr her ease was found to be past huiuaii relief. Several farmers near W apakoneta, Ohio, have been male the victim* of two very smooth fruit Iree men through a very ingenious scheme. A well dressed mail, driving thrush the country sell Ing fruit trees, wo iM stop at a farmer's house. While there he would be tnkeu very ill and ask thi farmer to hand hiui a bottle of inedicius out u f a grip, which, however, tho Inttei- would not find, lie wuuld then a.k him 1.. u , ur •end somebody to tawu for a prescrip. tion, giving liiiu a burnt mi |wu tud t fruit tree li'auk ou which in wrile the prescription, and as the medicine wal of such a uaiure as lo require the pur chaser's signature ihe unstitp . tin ! out •112 WOUld SlgU it >"*< here sl| ,n el No. 'J makes his ap irauee If out ih« opposiu dire, lion, goto , to luwu. Ms stop* lor a dunk of a iii, aud as ke is towing bsuli at one. so l is visiting in the nelgltorhnud, h« is »ked l » lake Ihe ywmiytw M «hurlly after hu TWO cn IES. Side by side they stand. These cities two. But a breath of land Between them lies; Above, the self-same skies, Serene and blue. One is full of strife And weal and woe. Quick with restless life; The other fair. Yet of its joy, or care, 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 FOKKKBT GRAVES. fHE yellow sky barred with lines of dark cloud, I the ground tight (ro7.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 in the blaze—these were the persons present. "Hasty pudding and milk!" said Dolly Peak. "That isn't much of a 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 thau sandwiches and coffee. I wish I was a bunk 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 lam the oldest, too, and the one that ought to be out in society 1 It's enough to drive one 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 lit to wear, and could <o, some one might (all in love with you?" Margery smiled a scornful smile. "Stranger things have happened,"said she. ".Margery—" hesitated Dolly. "Well?" "Don't people hire dresses some times?" "Yes, if they have the money and 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 ! mouse, or uny other of those proverbially 1 poor things. What business have we to live in a big house like this, with only old Rebecca to take care of us? What business have we holding our hands while our brother is working hard as a clerk, t.> maintain us?" "Because Arthur wants us to livo like ; ladies, IU the houso where our pareuts and grandparents lived before us I" said Margery, curtly. "Because we can't do auy thing else." "Dou't ladies ever work, Margery?" | "Dolly, dou't a>k such foolish ques tious. Of course they do—sometimes." j Just then old Rebecca caiue iu, bring i ing a lighted lamp. She drew the faded moreen curtains, put a fresh log of wood i Oil the tire, aud limped out again. She was very old, but she had waited 1 ou these girls' mother before litem, ami •till liked to keep up the semblance of , attendance. "They're ladies," said Rebecca, proud j ly, "every iueh o'theta. Look at their | white hands. Look at the way they carry themselves.'' Half au hour afterward. Margery I roused herself from a tit of abstraction, , to tluil that she wan aloue. "Why, where has Dolly gouef" she asked herself. Alld In the •ime moment the door dt w ope" a sudden gust of perfume , freighted the air, and IMly came iu, i with a ceudle held high above Ler head like Ud) Macbeth, a roll of old draper) under uer ariu, and a basket of delicious | whit* aud yellow narcissus in her baud ! "Where have I beenf" she repealed ) ••Why, everywhere) lp garret, down int.. the old greenhouse, Into the land | uf the possible and impossible! Mate 1 1 these tlowem, M irgeiy! -Villi »1»U held the narcissuses close t < Marguy's sir sight Utile 11 reek u..«, •'Where i|i«| )on get them. I».ill) ,at this IIIUK of ytar i" cried Margery "I planted litem lu the gietobouae benches, last fall. I •• determined to have ..amthing to brighten us up alien ! the Use h ah.iUiuds mi in It's line that lite saslu . iiu til broken, but I U< kwl oh I bUnkuls op, and made it weather tight, and the -au.hinc pours In Ilk* gold, aud lliv '4l lUritoou ro*.. is eyed j.ausus, and til lU spring sUit Well, | the •Mj •• LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1892. read about the girl who wcut to a party in her great-grandmother's wedding dress. Girls in stories always discover dresses packed away in old sandal scented trunks in garrets, so why shouldL't we? And I went up stairs and had a regular rummage." "Dolly, what a goose you arc!" "I just am, Margery. Of course the j was nothing there but cobwebs and 'lctle bright-eyed mice, and old rags that the ragman's great-grandmother would have been ashamed of. But I found this old cream colored silesia back of the mahog any chest of drawers. It'll make better curtains for this room than yonder faded moreen things. Oh, Margery, how nret tv those narcissus flowers look iu your 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, aud there, to her infinite embarrassment, 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 tho 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 frotu the room iu conscious disgrace, lost the re?t of the sentence. Down in the kitchen —the only other room iu which there was a fire—there ensued a lively discussion between old Rebecca aud her young lady. "My do uric sweet," coaxed tho 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 Hill." "But you're not, Becky. Dear Becky, good Becky, if you put on the old sleighing hood aud blue spectacles, no one will know you. And poor Margery! Think of Margery! Oh, Becky, you will—you must!" The soft kisses on Uebccca's cheek, lip, brow, were enticing beyond every thing. She felt herself yielding. "La, child," said she, "don't stifle me! If I must, I must!" The next morning Margery Peak , sauntered down to the old greenhouse. "If the flowers are really there," said ! she, "I may as well pick them and send them to Skipton Court. It II bo a neigh borly thin,' to do, and—Why, where are they! Dolly, 1 thought you said—" Iu the middle of tho old place stood Dolly in tho attitude of a tragic muse. '' They vc all beeu picxe land taken I away in the night," said she, dramati cally—"every one!" "Goodness me!" cried Margery. "Who ever heard of such a thing? Who can have done it?" ••Of course," sighed Dolly, "the door is never "locked. Any one could have iloue it." The night of the ball at Skipton Court arrived. Once more the sky gloweif yel low as the sweet spring jonquils them i selvei, ami the wind howled down the chimney of the uursery. Once more Margery sat on the old fur rug, thinking sadly. "Margery!" breathed a soft voice. "Dolly, are you there?" cried tho elder, with a start. I "Yes, I'm here. Listen Margery. ' When we were children, dou't you re member hoar we used to play at 'Making Believe?' Well, let's in ike believe now. I Suppose we had a grandmother, like the j story heroines, aud she had a wedding dress; would you like it to b»i liku tli'.s ? ' She shook out the clouds of a soft, ! white tulle dress, threaded with woven 'gleams of gold, aud kuottjd up here and there with bunches of yellow narcissus, Margery sprang to her feet ecstatically. "Oh, Dolly! she cried. "Atu 1 dreaming!" "No!" cried cxultaut Dolly; "It's real ! truth! I bought the dress aud old Becky made it—after the pattern of your last i while uiusliu— tud I trimmed It with ' flowers— :uy flowers." "Child, where did you get the luoueyl'' I "Becky sold the pausies aud the nar cissu.es aud the juuquils. The florists would have given auy money for more. They had a big order from HSipton Court. ' Now, Margery, I know how to earu money aud help Arthur aloug. As (or "Well, as for mef" "Why, here's the great-grandmother's , dress, aiid there's ths unchiutu I ball. , room, wailing at Hklptuu Court, aud the i yellow gold piei s raiuiu< down, iu the the shape of narcissus an I Jonquils. Aud I shouldn't a bit wouder," shu added roguishly, "if the royal pun... buntelf 1 wasn't s . very far oil, because Mi. Homer j «el told Arthur that he uever ha I seeu auy one as h toilful as yuu were Ihat '.night when you sat lu tho lirell (111 drape I IK -unitei Silesia aulcrowuel I willi (towel«. IJuiek! let mo help dress I you, , "?, V U , dis' Mile good 'airy I* mM UatMtry. Jhu sw.uuuiug eyes "Hut I Htusl si II long enough l > give you a fcta lluk did you eve. cum. to think y„> ull k iu a naii things hntU'cttel j *W| fnnl/«wd the bad room s*p*iisncss concluded the other half »112 the delicious 1 captivity. When she camo home, early in tho windy spring morning, Dolly was sitting up for her, drowsy but smiling. "Well!" cried Dolly, rapturously. "Do you know, Margery, I've been dreaming in front of the fire here? And what do you gross I dreamed? That Louis Somerset asked yon to bo his wife!" Margery's sweet, flushed faco drooped on her sister's shoulders. "It wasn't a dream, Dolly," she whispered. "It was tho truth, and I think you must bo a magician!" "Ona needn't depend much on tho magic art," said sagely Dolty, "if oue keeps one's ears and eyes open. I knew he was in love with you long ago. Oh, how sweet the flowers smell!" "Poor things!" said Margery, caress ing the drooping petals; "they are all withered. He 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 I"—Saturday Niglit. A Great Apple Orchard. The Wellhousc orchard of Kans\s 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, tho trenches be ing made by plowing out furrows nearly or fully ten inches 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 clover. This is cnt down every year j wheu the seed is ripe. The tool used In the operation is a home made rolling I cutter, consisting of a stick of timber I twelve or fifteeu inches square and ten j feet long. The corners are dressed off so as to form au octagon, aud eight I knives, running the whole length, are inserted, one at each corner. This stick of timber is fastened in a frame, and revolves in it when pulled over the ground by teams, its owu weight being sutiicicnt to chop up the clover and chance weeds. The trees are all low headed, traiued 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 aud ruined. An ordinary box trap is used for tho rabbits, which are very plentiful. Most of the insect I euemies are desy-oyed 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 grouud. j In the packing house the apples are | carefully assorted by hand. Three and even fo ir grades are made. All unfit | for other use arc left in the field or fed to hogs. The yield on the 225 acres in ! 1880 was 150-1 bushels; iu 18110, 79,170 ' bushels. The Missouri pippin is the | best viclder, followed by wine sap, then J by Beu Davis, Jonathan, and lastly by I maiden's blush and Cooper's early. The : last named is not Tha most fruit and most money has been obtained | from the Missouri pippin, but the trees I are becoming exhausted and fruit small. . Beu Davis is now the leader. The ex j penses up to the time that the trees cune : into bearing (in 188;{j aggregated $20,- i 352, or about thirty-five cents per tree, t Rent of land is not included iu this, however. Western Stockman. A Good Puckct-Kulfe. The costliest pocket-knives manufac tured for sale are retailed ut a store in New York City, which sells nothing but kuives. There arc 1500 different kinds | on exhibition iu the wiudow, ranging in ; from five ceuts to $25. The $25 knife is the costliest kuowu. The out : side plates of its handle are solid gold, and it coutuiua two suiull blades only, u ' nail file aud a miniature pair of scissor*. | There ia a little hook in the handle by which it may be attached to the watch chain. The sales of the i? 35 knife are very slow. The largest knife in America is sup posed to be iu Cincinnati. It has fifty six blades aud a ehest of tools in Itself, coutuiuiug almost anything from ii tooth pick to u cigar punch, from a pair of scissors to a handsaw. It is for sale at SSOO uud weighs thirteen pounds. The largest kuifo evtr kuowu was made by Jonathan .'rookes, a workman for Joseph Rodgers in Sheffield. It had 1821 blades. St. Louis Republic, I A Poet's Definition of Poetry. Whether sung, spoken, or writteu, poetry, says K. C. Steiduwn in the Cen tury, la stilt the most vital form of human exprewion. One who essiys tu analyse I its constituents is au explorer uuderUtk i ing a quest in which unity have failed. Doubtless he 100 may fail, but he sett forth ill the simplicity of a good kulght who does not fear his fate too much, I whether his dessrl be great or small. lu this in nl teak ing a durtultlo-i of that piKtie utterance which is or may become of riuord—a detluitiou both de feusible and iuolmive. yet compressed I into a tingle phrase—! have pul together the following statement; Poetry is rhythmical, Imaginative Uuguip, vfc (tie tuvtfMtiiHi.UvUf, • thought, | i-tlou and insight of the human sun!. ll' iplnlue»» nt Wiles. Hundred of fortunes that hive been ass rlbed lo lite industry of inuu lieu upon theiu the in iras uf a wife's hand, declares Rev. T D Will Tnluiage. itutgluuo, tile artist, aa* as lasy as he was lalenlel. Ills sludi i was over the KM where his »lft hvery few utiuules ail day lourf, to keep her huslutbd fromidieueas, Mrs Res. tiam wuuid i4k» a sin k and thump a aiust tha telling, aud hel bus ban I n II ltd ansae, b, »l* uplu* on the I UmM b* li 4 mI tt*<* iiujoiiik Ittil tt*4l f* * * » IU I Ull* m I#l t t»lwraT I 'U» letoH ttf llts MMHMM ><*****' THE BOAR OK GREAT GUN& THE OEDEAL OF SOLDIERS WHO SUPPORT A BATTEBY. The Kffect of a Terrific and Continu ous Cannonade Upon Man, Beast, Bird and Fisli "T~ "I" ERE are two field batteries— twelve, six and nine pounders I I in all —firing as rapidly as (112 they cun be loaded. The re ports blend into, a roar, and you must raise your voice as If a hurr'cane 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 luorturs and siege guns, but you find your nerves on 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 tire of great guns is terribly trying for the first Tew minuter, but this feeling gradually gives way to one of awe and sublimity. There is something terrific and appal ling—you feel yourself so ntoinless 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 mortur boats, each armed with an eight and a half-ton mortar and a thirty-two pound rifle cannon, at work against the forts below New Orleans, and the big guhs iu both forts had onened in reply, there wtM something akiu to the sound of heaven and earth coming together. Tho mortar shells weighed over 200 pounds a piece, aud the rush of them tnrough the air made one's liair feel as if it trawled. 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 into cracks and crevices. When the Sr:of,-4M fconfhiued until all reports had been merged into one steady ronr there was little short of an earthquake on land or sea for ten miles around. The Parth shook as if a great steam hammer was pounding it a few yards from your feet. If standing near a tree, you could feel tho roots letting g« of the soil with a sound like bugs crawl ing over dry leave. On the water great mud spots rose up here uud there to show where the earth, forty feet below h*(l beeu disturbed. Iu the Mississippi River itself huge catfish leaped above the surface iu fright and paiu or floated and were carried nloug with the current, gutplug for breath. Out on the blue water air luibbles as huge as diniug plates floated tot ic surface and bursted with a snap, aud fish of all kinds exhi bited the greatest confusiou aud alarm. Thirty miles away tlu roar was like that of a gale sweepiug over a piue for est. Horses and cattle sought to hiile away, birds flew about uttering cries of distress, and dogs poiuted their noses toward the sky and howled dismally. Rirds and fowls felt the air uud eirth waves long before human lieiugs did, aud their actious were so queer as to be come alarming. The coming of the roar to those afar of was prece led by u jar ring of the earth and a uiotniug iu Ihe air. Spriugs overflowed, and the water ill wells circled around as in a whirl pool. I'lio wildest specie, of bir is left the woods and thickets and came flying about the house', an I rabbits deserted their burrows and sought the coutpauiou ship of domestic am i als. The tliuu storms of II scorn of years conioined could not have rent the heavens nor dis turbed the sulhl earth as that cannonade did. If tire was painful nnd ex n*|>cruliug the ending was something to be remembered for its grandeur. *hie mortal after another, oue great guu alter another, was silenced by order. The re verberations hit I traveled through air aud earth and »nter a distance o( fifty miles. They now seeuie I to return back to the guns. The reut aud riven skies hail kept up a i instant monuiug and c< luplainiug. These aouuds gradu ally died away, as a man in pain tin illy drops oil to sleep. The tarlh resumed it is solidity again, the suu shoue forth iu its old laioiliar nay, and ihe bank of clouds pile I up IU the west and tinged with gold all aloug their lower edges seemed proof In the eyu thai the world still stood as we had lived iu it Ihe day before those minsters awoke aud de mantled human blood and wreck tud du structiuu a. the prn • of their silence.—• M tjuad, iu I'l I .out* Republic. HilW a Iduu tllaeks Au Kuglishuinn from Bombay, India, .ays thai the popular jdeturei of tious bounding at Hour victim, wisrepreseut this animal , mode of alia. t. I.lke other Aetce animals Ihe lions as a rule eudeaVol lu avoid ihe sinii'siitau until wounded, when, lilt• the Itgei, they eUsrge with a touching roar It lien hu dois at at k you. ihe iiuu goes at great spe I close lo Ihe giouud ami klea ks you youl legs lis sfea**. fUM ■ IpeTteUi v, as he .11 t I l.y Mil Hi it i.. si ..II II the Ron's elans and teeth did not huit Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. An average man 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 hcen 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 of ordinary bal loon material, the whole so constructed as to hold hydrogen instead ot ordinary gas. The descendants of a single wasp num ber as many as 30,000 iu one seison. November is the fatal month which kills them all off, except two or three femaie3, 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-toed, the ox two-toed, tho rhinoceros is three-toed, the hippo potamus is four-toed, aud 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 "be a curious experi ment. Of course, sheet-irou can be made as thin or thinner than writing paper. In its wild state the elephant fesds heartily, but wastefully. It is careful in selecting the few forest trees whic'.i it likes for their bark or foliage. But it will tear down branches nnd leave half at them untouched. It will strip of! the bark from other trees and throw away a lame portion. Lettuce is a sleepy vegetable. It has narcotic propcties In tho milky juice that exudes wh'Ju it is cut. The proper tics of this fluid are analogous to those of opium, but without the litter's disagrec *blo after eflccts. The rapid growth of lettuce in a cold frame diminishes tnc somnolent quality of its juice. The hop vine is said to be sinistrorso because it twines with tho motion of tho sun, that is, from right to left. Beans, morning glories ami ull other species of climbing plants, with the exception of one of the honeysuckles, are dextrorse, turning opposite to the apparent motion of the sun, or fro n lett to right. After you have become tired of paying a tool-maker to forge and grind up tools, you will try to cast iron tools made out of old car wheel iron and nlbutninum al loy composite, in either a cupola or cruci ble furnace. They will take a greedy bite and not get discouraged; and will not require grinding so often as steel toolrf 1 . Idectrlclty for Health. The value of electric ity in hastening the growth and maturity of certain vegetable tonus, an 1 in bringing out the vivid colors of flower, promises to be supplemented by a value more directly useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro posed to bring young auiruals up ou sterilized milk and food he opened the way to the idea that the water supply of cities could be Improved, and be made perfectly harmless, by applying tin death-dealing agency <>f electricity to inilltou of lujiiriout germs tloatiug in it. The sterilit itlon of water sources by means of electricity may be far In the future, but Ihe fact that the work Is practicilly demonstrable is sufficient to show that great advances have been made iu the direction of solving the queatiou of water supplies iu cities. Not leas Im|M>rtaut is the agent lu destroying life iu file sewers of the cities, and 111 the great mass of gailinge an I waste which scatters around every city whole cordons of threatening diseases. A.i other jieeuliarity of the (Miwerful ageut Is that it has results Upon the general health of people simitar to those of tho suu. In crowded quarters of the cities where the auultght is seldom admitted, electric light is far more conducive lo health thau auy other mode of lighting. It It stilt a mooted quuilion whether it cannot be made lo force growth iu the individual as it does iu the plants aud lluwers of Ihe hothouse, where the tight is applied ulgbt aud day.— Yankee Blade Total t!rll|»ses uf till* fcun Kveiy year there must be Iwo ecliinei uf the sun, au>l there may lie live. Tlure are partial taliiwes, however, escept iu the comparatively rare cases in which the moon paasua ueaily centrally otei Ihe sun's disk aud Modi! ei a lotal ot». ua tion of his Itglil Him tin' Inventio inf tile S|"'clluscupe iu IlliO, llieto Ita.e been I Mitch a score of total eclipaet, and a uuuitwr uf lhase coul l not Im tiliat Il ed U. ao*c the bell of totality fell at Ihe earth'* polar legion »i u|»ou the me on The hell of totality I* a narrow strip-, never wore than a huu Irtd and sevs.oy ii.lies Wide While Ihe |»»!Ul of lha moon * sMtlo* falls up m the mrtfc lotal et b|it«s lately ocs u., lit*iclore, , the same p»l«l of lite sarth Al I. iu 100, 1,.1 »tauipb there has no la'lipse time the y«4t 11 to. t sieot that >( If)ft NO. 30. REOAIHP 0 ' Like the notes that stir and die When a harp string inapein Like a fading sunset sky After driving wind and rain; Like a sound within » abell, \ Like an odor in tha air, Like an echo in a dell. Like a star, remote and fair, 0 my child, thou urt to me! And thy soul is linked to mine, As the pale moon draw* 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 1 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 ou those beside me, And deemed I did thee wrong. And dreaiut thou mightt deride ine For sharing joy or song. Now thy face come 6 back to me, All free from tear or stain; A brighter image of thyself, Triumphant over pain. I sought it not, for heedless, 1 nursed ray 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 sky. —Good Words. HI'MOR OF THE DAT. A tell-tale—The Gessler story.—Life. The rabbit-hunter is a hare-brained fellow.—Rochester Post. Outside of diplomatic circles the fish eries question is often purely one of ver acity. The tiuie when a woman has no mercy is when she gets a mouse inn trap.— liam's Horn. "My ideas," insisted the architect, "were all right. lam the victim of mis construction." It is au aggravation for a hungry tramp to find only a fork in the roftd.— Texas Siftings. Teacher—"Haus, name three beasts of prey." Hans—"Two lions and a tiger." —Teias Siftings. One trouble with the world is that so many have more reputation than char acter.—Run'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 ought to get a job at majyjj^prails v= ». Biugharatou KupuOlifcau. "I hear Uholly Blimpate is sick. Have you had any intelligence from hiin?" "Not a gleam."—Chicago Tribune. The only way to win in an argument with a woman is to walk off when you have staled your stde of it.—Atchison Globe. Mr. Gurlcy—"Are your family related to the Scaddscs, ol Philadelphia?" Miss Scadds (haughtily)—"No; they are re lated to us."—Life. Edith—"Lord English said my image was photographed 011 his mind." Ethel —"Yes, photographs are usually made on blanks."—Yale Hecord. Fair, rosy cheeks had Kitty (Irime*. bright wis utid o|ien brow, Sh« juiu '«.il the rope 'JOOO times— Shu isn't jumping now, —Chicago Tribuue. Barley (at church fair)—" Let's j;o up and have that pretty jjirl tell our for tunes." Brace—"Not auy; what's the use i Dou't I know I'm broke.''— Graphic. Sharpson —"Old fellow, you look seedy. It is time you had n new suit." Phlatz—"l know it, but my tailor re fuse* to—h'm—to renew the modus vi- Tendi."—Chicago Tribune. ••Very pretty sursct," he remarked. "Yes," she replied. "I don'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." .1 earns (the porterl—"Bej[ pardon, sir; 1 hare bad news for you. Mr. Caih box died this morning. Old Skinucr "(tied this morning! Now that's just like (,'ashbos. lie knew this was tin busy season."—Life. "Yes," »ald young Mud,kins, who sat In calm disregard of the clock, "I may say thai I am a fixture In our olflte now." "I know, Mr. Hudgkint," sh< answered, gently, "but this isn't youi I'lfice, you kuow." Lansing Ntas. Mrs. Hi mil—"lias the Hanging Own mlttro decided about yuur picture yet!" Brush—"Yes." Mrs. Itrush—"Are they guiugto "I heard the I'hair »an say he thoUHht h mining was too good for it,"— Brook lya Life. The l«clur«r— "Iff hearers, I shall have to ask your indulgence lut a In minutes. I my maMim'tipi, antl have seal my little b»y (or II." Ills sua, lui.ttuliiitf rostrum (In luuil tone ) "Mamm.» couldn't dud the wrlliu', Lut here's the took Jon copied it lrou». M Tid Bits. Omdoiug Hi I'.md Mother—"! do to hn|ie diet Ueurtfe has studied hard at "'"W I I have u ut.J to Impress upon his m|h4 tin' value j| * hb«ral educe lion Kstloi afreHl, tnjr 4eir, that you lute ralhst utenlune tl»e ittal lei I had to xud lute « ch»k lut #WO lo >ta) ' - F<tnu> Kulks. The itliiu la} \ lh« liiheuttau, ou receiving . Wl , usoiw* Iruut a ileh un.de, luok TT LULU t»U Ihm4 to squats ug sow* ol his 4ebu Me Hist i sH<d a' his isllVs s» I heaid |b*t Ihe (mm* o.au I.ail j»t dle.l Ills wi4ow, a" im Uait, UsueU Im kuu« iku iialtoi, •Hand -I h«ve «uuse hi py m) Mil, ' 'w' " 4kl " *»>''» ' "4* I u I ' kusbaed k«d "JI ' U 'W (kMtiiieg, lite i»SVt iwugkt him 10444.4' U headache"
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