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, '
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