SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. The development of electric railroads in this country has been extraordinarily rapid. Professor Geffcken, of Hamburg, does not consider 7,000,000 too high an esti mate to represent the number of Ameri can citizens of German birth or parent age - It is said that Canada is the only country in the world in which the mili tary force is armed with the old Snider rifles. Military men of the Dominion are urging the adoption of a more modern arm. Plainfield, N. J., boost 3 of a vast un derground river which supplies more water than the inhabitants can use. Iu an attempt recently made to test tho capacity of the stream, more than 4,000,- 000 gallons daily ran to waste, but the river was apparently as full as ever. One of the curious aspects of our com plex nationalities resulting from the number of foreign emigrants, notes tho New York Sun, is tho liability of Italians to become counterfeiters. The English speaking races, tho Germnns and the French, seem inclined to regard counter feiting as not worth, the trouble at tho risk at which such a pursuit is engaged in. But the lower class of Italiaus, for some mysterious reason, regard counter feiting as an easy way of earning a liv ing. Large as has been tho increase of popu lation in the United States during tho post decade, it shrinks into insignifi canco beside the growth of tho population of India. The preseut population of In dia is 259,000,000, and theincreaso dur ing the past decade has beeu about 30, • 000,000, nearly half the entire popula tion of the United States. Gratifying.as this increase is to the British Govern ment, it is also viewed with alarm by many of her statesmen, for some believe that India is already so thickly populate ! that it can sustaiu no more inhabitants. It is time, opines the New York Sun, for the Congress of these States to give attention to some of the things that are doing abroad lor tho safety of ships ap proaching a coast line. Besides the ver tical light which is to flasu skyward in foggy weather, there is no doubt about the efficiency and value of the socket rocket, which is by far the best fog sig nal know<F It is discharged by a car tridge and rises 2000 feet, carrying a bursting charge of half a pound of gun cotton. Not only is the souud more au dible overhead, but the light is also fre quently visible wheu nothing can be seen horizontally; lor it commonly happens that tho tog is quite thin above whllo very thick below. Tho siren is a very clover invention and a very useful thing iu its way; but for ships befogged the rocket is confidently pronounced to be worth a dozen sireus. Why should not both be used? And why should the United States lag behind any people in appliances for tho security of nuvign tionf A bill which recently passed the United States SouMe hat beeu vigorously u&sailod by newspaper* nil over the couu try as n i attempt to infringe upon the rightsof citizen* onga ;ed in business.The New York World says of thU measure: "It it kuowu as the Pnddock Pure Food bill. It authorize* ageuts of the Agri cultural Department to call for ami an alyce or have aualvzed nam pie* of nil footl<t or drugs or drluks or patent med icines, or anything else that a uiao can swallow, which may lie oiTired for tale in auy other Statu other than that in which they are produce I, aa<t It make* it a iui*<leineanor to send or take from oue State to another auy lood or drug which is adulterated or improperly branded, The measure U bad n'.l over and clear through. It direct* Federal bureau interference with a matter which property bolouga to the several State*. It opeus up au opportunity lor eudless e* tittvttgautu iu the multiplying of uee lies* aud costly auatyaaa. It institute* a buirau of iu>|uUitiott which,ia dishonest hand*, will become a bureau ul black •uail pure and >tmple. U give* to tbu bureau practically the p.iwi t to prohibit Me talc »112 auy article which ia not au abt'iluta *iuiple, tu call any combiuatiua of substance* aa adulteration,aud tu help nut man's bus'ueas by deatroyiug tha but inuw of hi* uowiMititur with au arbitrary ruliag. II the bill IMMOIUU* a law tha bureau may at will saiect a hakiug |«jw tier, for atvupia, aud accept lis eom|t.i siti<u a* the tiaudafd, foiUiddiug the ■ale ol all luikiii|| pwaidera matte Iu auy diftaraut fasltiuu by that Iu call them baking p» * I>N I« to braud I .HIII Iwprujitsily. It iua> favor •>«« WeUhup ia the »a>ue way, aud »i vm the whula iiat o! ItMtda aud >lrugs au>i ilriuks I'bvie Uuu public dualte lor such a uiuaiuie I'l.wftj uu Hinmliia yli, aud u>« mow ui jt*>ti< •! ia it. |t ftku arbitrary, iyiauiuial, ps'eiuai im pertlwaui* at luMt, at M«««t thlutf v»11 u»«tb Ui «<. <£ ihat.- 1 / S the happy land* The happy land t Studded with cheerful homesteads, fair to see, With garden grace and household symmetry: How grand the wlde-brow'd peasant's lordly mien, The matron's smilo serene! O happy, happy land I The happy land! Half bid in dewy grass, the mower blithe Sings to the day-star as he whets his scythe; And to his babes, at eventide again, Carols as blithe a strain. O happy, happy land t The happy la>4! Where, in the golden sheen of autumn eyes, The bright-haired children play among the sheaves Or gather ripast apples all th 3 day. As ruddy-cheeked as they. O happy, happy land. O happy land I The thin smoke curleth through the frosty air. The light smiles from the windows; hearken there To'the white grandsire's tale of heroes old— To flame-eye 1 listeners told, O happy, happy land! O happy, hapuy laud! The tender-foliaged aiders scarcely shade Yon loitering lover and glad blushing maid. O happy land! the Spring that quickens.thee Is Human Liberty! O happy, happy land! —W. J. Linton. THE MYSTERIOUSIPACE ON BOTTLE PINNACLE. T may be you have A V seen the pottery bot ties made by the Zum ant * P ue b'° Indians MitiMMi of New Mexico. They are never true, are always crank-sided. 'AI Th e Pinnaclo was about as symmetrical as arc Indian pottery bottles. It has a well fitting stopper. You & felt like climbing up with a screw and drawing tho cork for a look inside. But thongn the wine of the gods had been in them, you couldn't have climbed that bottle. There wasn't anywhere a chance to catch on with fin gers or toenails. And if there wero any thing harder that tho quartz in that pil lar, dynuiuitc-makers may be acquainted with it; I'm uot. Our settlement was proud of its bottle —bragging about it at barbecues, aud camp-meetings, and turkey-pullings, and corn-huskiugs. Wo were forever daring climbers to try their nails, and spurs, nnd chisels, and augers on it. Every stranger that came our way was certain to be challenged to try his skill. There wasn't u s»ul in the settlement but claimed a share in Bottle Pinnacle, and I reckon there wasn't a shareholder that didn't take a look at it every day. No wonder, then, that on one certain morning the villagers were running about before breakfast, calling on one another to look at au uuusual object parched up there, ou the stopper of Bottle Pinnacle. Sure enough, there was something up there. It was parti-colored red and yel low, as far as could bo made out. Its size! well, you know it is with the moon. You can n.ake it seem to you the size of a dinner-plate or as large us the hind wheel of a lumber wagon. The size of J that object ou the stopper was anywhere from that of a butterfly to a calf, accord ing as you allowed for the distunce or didn't allow. y. Most of the people of the settlement lmd ! cold breakfasts that morning, or burut , biscuits, because of the disputes they got into about tl-o "thin.;" perched on the cork, disputes, too, that didn't stop for weeks. "It's shiny like gold." ••It it gold." "It's a gold nugget stickiug out of the quartz." "It's no more like : a gold nugget thun a cat is like cattle." "It's like a face that's up there—there's ! a note as plain as there's a nose ou your ! face!" "It'sa human lace!" "How in ! reason could a face get up on that stop per when hands ami legs couldn't do it to save their souls!" "Nobody means its a mortal face; it's a ghost-face," "if , we could only get up there!" The |>eople twisted an 1 screwed their brains over plans aud -rheums for scal ing the Bottle Piuuaele. There were not any bridge builder* iu the settle ment, nor any tower of Battel art tilted*. There were uo acrobats or gymuasts li . jump over the iuoou, or swiug to the •tars. 'lie discussions, tho exclamations went ou "We blow titi the pin nacle aud liud a gold mine!' "And spoil the great ualnr.il curit sity of the settlement!" "It w« Ua<| a canuon, we utighl shoot out the cork!" "There is a magnifying glo*s at it' ' villa,etltiwu the valley; we'll borrow thai 1 ' 1 »aid some one *t last. The maguifytug gl >ss was brought, anil most of the men .ml boys I row the village of the valley csiue along with 11. The ptople pe«t«.o 1 so at>out their turn, to huik through tho it.>>gnilter at the ob ton tl..' i i.itii 1 1: »• * guard had i>• stand around the gl »sand let iu oue petsuu at a time to the paling, hegtnuiu i with Ih<> As. This riade lite watltug Y's audi » figh'iug uitd. Ihe teinerks went »u: "It's ml a nugget I" "It's sml g»ul!" "II it'i gul l, It's u gold face, fur a i*oe it to I" "It's • Ism!' 1 "|i i | ins!" everybody said. • ll's like lite lotte ut ti'MKgu W tlillell!" •It i.lit., ghost ut George WI" •Hot he died the day after that few look up Its tesidoutu ou tho >top : »er I" " I'lt* late look* a heap more like (Iran lots '1 Utile Sl" "It • a silt to Speculate abouk • ghuat I seel" There was »ue pen.* whoa* Uisl un delink to do > i . h hrrflrTi "'tl ™- ■ ikl "* piuuseie, fllN «a« 4 t , WmU*. Lite b . lllu LAPOBTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892. branch toward the pinnacle, and looked the face in the face. But ho couldn't make it out any more than he had done on the ground with the magnifier. The crowd below passed up a swine. Govann fastened this to limbs and swung out in a free way toward the bottle, the face steadily looking on. It might have laughed in its sleeve, if' it owned a sleave, at the way Govann returned— crashing back through the boughs, hang ing on them shreds of his clothes, shreds, too, of his sandy hair for the use of future nests-builder.'. Govann reported that ho did not ob tain any additional knowledge of the subject by that tour of observation. The face on the stopper was a face; that was certain. The magnifying gloss was sent up to the investigator. Standing on one foot in a swaying branch, Govann took ob servations with the magnifier. Ho re ported that it was really a face; more over, that it moved and "made faces'' at him. "Surely it was some wicked spirit— the ghost of some one beheaded for crime." Then they fell to rediculing Govann for the failuro of his tree excursion. He had not advanced the general informa tion except by stating that the face had moved. "I doubt the face's mov ing." "The motion was all in Govann's eye." "Takitig dagucreotypes" was just then getting around to our parts, and. all the people said that they'd subscribe to got a picture-taking man and his machine to come over and take the likeness of that red-and-yellow mystery, sitting uncon cerned up there. Govann said that if they would give him the money which it would cost to get the thing's picture taken, he'd under take to solve the mystery.^ How would ho do it? They must raise tho purse and he must see the money; he didn't propose to wait till planters could raise another crop and sell it before feel iug of his money. Then, too, he must have the help of all the men and tools that he might need. Govann's first call was for good axes, sharp saws and the best of choppers. All tho other men of the settlement stood looking on while the axmen chopped and the sawyers sawed at tho tallest tree in all that country—the companion through years of storm aud sunshine of the Dottle Pinnacle. There were guesses and reck onings about tho probable happenings when the great tree should fall. "The bottle might bo broken to pieces I" "The face might fall at their feet!" Not only the settlement but a crowd from near and far came to the tree fall ing. And it did make n sight and a sound worth whilo. The top was broad enough to make a sky-duster. When the folks saw the great plumy mass of green sweeping down like a forest, mak ing a moving shadow like a swift storm clcul, they held their breath, feeling that nothing could save Bottle Pinnacle —that it must bo crushed into a thou sand fragments. But not a crumb was broken from it, though it was thrashed with great groen whips past numbering. It stood silent, unharmed. Tho tree itself received a thousand wounds, but was safely lodged against the rock, as Goraau had planned. At onco the choppers and sawyers began to lop off the branches alon the massive trunk. Then, up tlio Indian la ler formed by tlio notches, Uovaun climbed till ho reached the rock where the bottle's neck began. There ho crept out on the shoulder, seekiug a hold, a break iu thu rock, by which he might get higher, or for yielding spots where he might screw iu his augers. But tlio pinuacle stood unyielding, unconquere I. He called for tho longest and lightest ladder that the settlement could produce. It took the hard tuggiug ot a scoro of men to get it up to uim. It was planted on the bottle's shoulder, stayed by the treetop. It was njw dark. By a lantern Govaun climbed up aud up to the lad der's topmost round, the people watch ing the latter mount higher an 1 higher till it seemed a star. At thu top he held out and up the lantern at arm's length, but no light was thrown on the face. There's uothiug boys wou't tlu for fun. They sereuaded Uovauit, siugiug "Itockaby, Htby in the Treetop." In the morning Uovanu returned to the top of the ladder eud lashed hiiusclf to it. lie had a rope with three lashes, cadi lash euditlg in a loop. This triple lasso lie threw up, trying to lasso the face. The couutenance wa* turned three quarters to l)im, but lis could hsrdly get a glimpse of it on scoouut of Ihe pro jecting ledge un thu bottle just below thu stopper. lie worked al laesoiug all Ihe morning without ouce touching lite face. but just as he heaid the diuuer horns of the snllleuient sounding falut aud far he fouud that his rope was caught by so.mi thing iu the stopper. This utadu his bioud Ju np. tlraeiug hiutaelf he pulled sl the rope with all hi* wight. It -lid nut *lart. Ills lieait beat hard. If the rope would hold he saw that he could ulimb it to ths tup of Ihe pinnaclo. Holding to the top of the ladder, be swung all nie weight on the rope. It held taut. Agaiu and agaiu he tested It carefully from side lo side. Il did uot start. His head gtew hot with courage. "Climb ill Up! Uliutb it!" they Itelow shouted. Ue looked down to ihe dwelled peo ple shouting aud waving eneoursgetueul. I'hcu his breiu leeiedt his henrt was suddenly uoid a* > toue, lor a mostteal unly the lashtug topes kept him. rttawiy his head • lead led. lie retried the rope caught these somehow on Ihe lop of Bottle Pinnacle, tho end ol the rupe in his hand he tiled to tie the lad der. Hut the rope wa* fai tooshoit for ' a good knot tl ivsHu wore a pair ol , homemade .u.,*s l i*. _b> his • wvclheall out of « double ~A twisted He went carefully, WMrfully over the ledge, carefully up the stopper, till hia eyes were taking in the orest of the pin nacle, the first in all the world to get a sight of that uplift. There was the rope on which he hung; he saw that one loop was caught over a little rocky une venness about two inches above the gen eral level. Over the rim of the stopper he passed, roso to his feet, and saluted the cheer ing throng below. The shouting grow uproarious as he held up to view the red and yellow mys tery, though the people didn't yet know what it was. What did Govann find there on Bottle Pinnacle? There were square rods of surface on the crest that had looked from belew like a point. He found an eagle's nest from which the bird was then absent, and cn the nest's edge, fronting the settlement, forming a part of the nest's embankment was the red and yellow face, held in place by sticks and other build ing material, gathered by the bird that can stare the sun out of couutenance. Hugging the mystery with one arm, the hand holding on the waist band of his trousers, Govann slid down the rope, backed down the ladder to tho treetop, climbed down the Indian stairs and swung down on a pile of feather bods which tho womon had protided against a fall. Then tho boys helped him off the feathers to tho stump of tho big tree, and there ho hold up tho mystery in plain sight—a bundle of clothos with a mask faco tied on it. "It's Georgo W. Gillet's scarecrow!" The proud bird of the sun, instead of being scared by the mocked sentinel, had captured it and carried it to the pin nacle's crest. Govann secured the purse, married his sweetheat, and founded one of the first families of his State. Its coat of arms is an eagle perched on a misshapen bottlo. —Atlanta Constitution. Sacred Feathers Among the Indians. Feathers figure very prominently in the religious customs of most aborigi nes, and remarkably so in the Southwest. Among Navajos and Pueblos alike those plumo symbols aro of the utmost efficacy for good or bad. They are part of al most every ceremonial of the infinite su porstitious of those tribes. Any white or bright hucd plume is of good omen— "good medicine," as the Indian would put it. The gay feathers of the parrot are particularly valuable, and some dances cannot be held without them, though the Indians have to travel huudreds of mil , into Mexico to get them. A peacock is harder to keep in the vicinitjrof Indians than tho finest liorso—those brilliant plumes aro too tempting. Eagle feathers aro of sovereign value; and in most of the pueblos great, dark, captive eagles are kept to furnish tho coveted articlos for most importaut oc casions. If the bird of freedom wero suddenly exterminated now, the whole Indian economy would come to a stand still. No witchei could be exorcised, nor sickness cured, nor much of any thing else accomplished. Dark feathers, and those in particular of the owl, buzzard, woodpecker and raven, are unspeakably accursed. No one will touch them except those who I"have tho evil road," —that is, are witches,—and any Indian found with them in his or her possession would bo officially tried and officially put to death. Such feathers are used only in secret by thoso who wish to kill or harm an enetny, in whose path they are laid with wicked wishes that ill fortune may follow.—St- Nicholas. Marriage by Proxy. A curious custom among the rulers ot tho Old World is marriage by proxy. For instance, Francis 11., the ex-King of Naples, was wedded by proxy in 1859 to Maria, a duchess of Bavaria. Of course the marriage by proxy goes uo further than the ceremony. Exactly why it shouitl be done at all is not clear by past or preseut history, uules> to save the Prince the trouble of going after hia wile ami give tier a decent excuse for cotiilug to him. In the case of Fraucis, he had never »eeu Maria, and their first interview is said to have been atteuded with consid erable ilUapjiointmeut. lu fact, If tho Voting man ha I not be# i already married by proxy he would probably have never married thu lady at all. Leopold, King of the Belgiaus, also married his Austriau wife by proxy, but he knew what he wa« about, having met her a ntonth previous during a visit to Vieiiua. At the time of the marriage he wa« but a mere stripling, aud hi* wife was ohusen for hiiu by hi* ruyal lu teals, who, however, gave hiiu the priv ilege or neeiug her iu advauue. On hi* return Irout Vlauua Leopold wa* sick for about a week, aud, accord iug to general reptift, not love sick, al least with hi* appointed wife. 'l'tieir married life, however, has not beeu uu happy, so far at the world knows, except thr»ugh the extraordinary uiUtorluues which made t'arlotu aud Diephaaie witlows of the house ol AusUia.—• Drake's Utsgesiue. VaMng Pearls- U it repotl • I that aPreuch savant, II lioucaoa-Haioudely, has devised a method lor tlu silldeial manufacture of real pearl*. t'tie procee* adopted M simply lu It >re hole* in the shells of a pearl oyster * ith a gimlet, inliudutiiug through ihc.e |<erfo«alious litlie lulls of gl*M, and stoppiug lh> at hermetically with cork* After fuur week*' lime the ball* uf glttta *ie found lu be laiveled with a litiu lajeruf peatl. lu tlx mouths Ihe layer bt« become ol a sntttuleut ihlt Utw |o be ftermaueul, aud Ihe big ness uf Ihv jewel thus mauul»* lured is iu proportion lo ihe perWi allowed to tilitiMMi (lli ante, litU ft** IU insiMimiii a* thi Welle* *»U uot<Up«.u lljrft , 111 tetetjf JiHfl lu jMisUt | iu«l( trout (ffiUMuM bj Um lutiudel Iheesiartt tooled believe, that peat is can be mad* ol t«tluu* |he uidsi by seteetluu sl'teayou*, HOW MATCBES ARE MADE. A PRETTY AND A MOST INTEBEBT INO OZBEKONY. Preparing the Pine Splints—Dipping in the Plioaphorne Paste— Won derful Quick neas of Workers. ¥ATCH-MAKlNJjy«oneof the prettiest and most interesting of industries imaginable. Tho following is a bird's eyo view of it, as carried on in the leading factory in London —which is to say, in the world. To begin with wooden matches. They are of two kinds—"lucifers" nod "safe ties;" but as the process of manufacture is almost identical, we will confine our selves to the lucifers. The wood, Ca nadian pine, comes to the factory ready split up into little sticks—or splints, as they are called—of the same size as a match, but doublo the length. The first process consists in preparing these splints for dipping in the phosphorus paste. Imagine a very large, airy room, with several rows of stands or tables running from end to eud. On each stand is a small machine driven by steam—say 250 machines in all—nnd to every two ma chines a match girl. All she has to do is to feed the two machines alternately, first one and then the other. She tnkc9 a handful of splints and puts them into the feeder, exactly as you put coffee into a coflee mill. They puss through and are bound together in a most ingenious way by a strap, so as to form wheel or drum about the size of a large fiat cheese. The splints, il must be understood, lio across, so that their projecting ends represent the sides of the drum, and each oue is separate. It takes only a few minutes to put to gether 5000 or 6000 in this way, and as soon as they are ready the machine stop* automatically. The whole bundle is then removed and carried to the dippine place. Here the phosphorus composition is ladled out of a vessel and spread on a •lab. By simply laying the wheel S/jyrv fiat on the slab every single splint ol which it is made up receives a dab of phosphorus at one end, and by turning it over the other end is similarly treated. This work is done entirely by mon, and takes place in a shed with an open roof, so ns to allow very free ventilation. Eacn splint has now been converted into a double match with a head at both ends; we have, in fact, got a bundle containing 10,000 matches. For clear ness' sake some details been omitted; but it will be seen that the preparation of 10,000 matches only takes u few minutes all told. After dipping, the bundle is dried in a hot chamber and then jtnroll«>d, which is done very prettily by another machine. The end of the strap binding the lot to gether is caught and drawn between two rollers, and as it goes the wheel un wiuds aud the matches come off in a perfect shower. It is all done in a moment. One more operation remains, and it is tlio most Interesting of all. The matches, as has been said, are so far double. They have to be cut iu half and packed in boxes. This is done by the girls with astounding rapidity. Each one stands at a table; on her left are a lot of empty boxes half open, on het right a pile of double matches, and be tween the two a lever knife like those used for cuttiug tobacco. She takes a hai'dfu! of matches iu her right hand, and the extraordinary tliiug is that she always pick un exactly the right number to fill a box, uever varying by more thau one or two. She puts them under tho knife, cuts the bundle into two, and fills two boxes with them in the twiukliug of an eye; the swiftness aud accuracy of her motions are indescribable. The whole performance dites not take more than five or six second*. Audit is not oue womuu only. Here »ro rows U|K>U rows of them throughout a vast building, all doing tho same thiug with equal or almost equal proficiency. In auother department au iustau- c of itill greater dexterity rnav be observed. Every one kuows the wrap j>ers of transparent pa|>er in which the safety match boxes aro commonly en veloped, aud a look at them will show that they are folded several times iu dlf fereut dirt it ions. This folding is doue by woiueu like a flush of lightning or a conjuror's card trick. The eye fails lo follow the luoveiueut of their hands. There is ouly oue thing more uiiuble thau a woman's hand, aud that is her tougue. —St. James's Budget. I'srlslau Iteggars. Professional beggar* in all countries uiust heartily hate M. Pauhatr, Ihe Preuch gentleman who uaslakeu ou him self to expose them ami their tricks. Home time ago, it may be remembered, he published a Itook ou Ihe subjeot, con taining ihe most extraordinary revela tlons, and this is nhortly to be followed by am tlhet work ou lutuidicily and men dicants, which will be published simul taneously in Prauco, England, and Amer ica, for in Ike two last-named coun tries the author is aware, he says, thai uteudu ily and impost ore ilouruh the same as iu Piauee. II I'aubair bslievue he ha* fouud a remedy fur I'm evil, Ihe nature of wbkh he will divulge iu his coming wurk ou the subject, and iu the meantime ho tatuliuue* lo huut uu the beggar* of Paris, and cleverly disguised, lu gw altoui a* one of them, thtM learning whal lltcy pot-bet per day, what Ihett tricks are, and so forth. He calculate* thai there are over lti,oou professional beggars iu the Preuch capital, whose takings daily, at the very luwest figure, are eighty tent* iter head This gives Ihe lubu'uus tola! uf #l,aiO,tXk) gtveu away anuuall) in vitality lu Ike streets of Pans aud he MI very likely light Ut ad diug thai at least lout-tilth* uf the mouey «u.U its way into the putkuts of impm lot*, mi uf psupte wh » tt/uld work for I hell living if they ufeose U Paubati ■ay* he Ita* a choice tittle euileetittn o* thuawuiug letter* whit It he has leteived aud h t oii> i illy let •11 in,, lie U uot li* l*t» U %»t llM* pfxtotllMl Uo >d U*tii whtfsts are sealea. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; t1.25 after Three Month*. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A hop picking machine has 6Sn in vented in Australia. Electric tanning is likely, it is said, to be taken up and vigorously pushed here. Hard rubber handles for bicyles are being replaced in great numbers by the more popular cork. Thunder is a noise caused by a discharge of atmospheric eloctricity—why or how is not clearly known. The circumference of the earth's orbit is about 612,309,500 miles, that of tho moon about 1,500,493 miles. The sanitary condition of the Capitol, at Washington,is to be examined by two eminent experts, in order to ascertain whether it is a healthy structure. Sufferers from neuralgia are warned by a medical writer not to drink tea, but to drink freely of coffee into which .tho juice of a lemon has been squeezed. The workmen employed on the exca vations at Sparta, Greece, by Dr. Wald stein, of the Amorican Archasalogical School, have discovered the circular building at that placo mentioned by Epimenides. In distance the moon is 210,000 miles away from our earth, around which sho gravitates like a satellite. Ilor diameter is about 2153 miles; she has a solid sur face of 14,600,000 miles, and a solid content of about 10,000 cubic miles. The scientific reason for cooking spinach and other groen vegetables, such as tops of beets, dandelion, kale Brus sels sprouts, and cauliflower, in salted boiling water, is that the first contact with the boiling water closes the cells of the vegetable and prevents, the escape of the coloring matter and the flavor. One of tho features of electric-lighting work, as compared with gas-lighting,has been the absence in the former of all "residual products" that might consti tute an element of economy and profit, now been pointed out that for tnuuy iocal companies a chance to in crease revenue catx * found iu the utilization of exhaust \ *n. A novel application \>f tho electric light is now to be witnessed in the vehicles of the London (England) Gen eral Omuibus Company. The inspectors have been provided with au electrical apparatus, which, from a case about the size of a hunting-watch fastened to the waistcoat, throws a steady, mild and effective light on the dirtiest and most tattered tickets. Steam should never be put into a brick or cement sewer, as it has an injurious effect on the same, causing disinte'ra tion and collapse within a very shorl time; neither should it be led into a bricK chimney, for tho same reasons. The Stationary Engineer points out that in some places it is the practice of en gineers to turn the exhamt from the pump or small engine into the sewers, but this is ba i practice. It ought to be tn illegal act in cities, for it will de itroy the sewers. The Great Redw.toils. fho Eastern lumbermen who arc hero are much interested in tho great ro.l woods, of which they have seen a fow, and in tho monster troes of Santa Crur, and the sequoilai of tho Yotomito and other California park-'. The groat pinei »nd fur of the North tilled them with surprise, but tho trees they have seen hero they say have arouse 1 their credul ity as to what California cuti pro lucc. Nevertheless, they have not seen tho really greit trees, like those of tho high Sierras, including the Kings liiver and Yoscinite products. S. E. llolcoiu, one of tho discoverers of the grove of giant sequoias iu Fresno Co— ' •, iu what Jehu Muir has do ni „„,etl the New Voseinlte, is at tho Auiericau Exchange. He says no words can describe their grandeur, nor the itn ptcssions created upon the visitor when beholding theiu for the first time. "They are trees that a touish and am *e," said he,"and the effect is la<t iug. It lasts for all time. At least, I do not think I shall ever get rid of tho effect which they had ou me, nor do I wish to do so. If to Bryant such grovos at he saw were temples, what must these be cousitiered I I leave all this to the poets, but there are some |toiuts that I doubt not will be of interest to the luui benueu. "There is a tree there with tho aston ishing circuiuferem.o of 137 feet, and a diameter in the uarroweet place of forty twu feet, while the trunk reaches almost 400 feet in tin air. Then there are trees there twenty-eight feet through and ba bies uf twelve feet ami so ou. To see theiu Is au object lesiou wait;a carries with il aator.is!iuiuat forever. To stau I iu their shadow is something worth do iug at almost any cost. Could the lum beriueu ol the piueries behold the.ii uever ageiu could they view the uidiaary tree but thuy would be impressed with the tact that they were but mere sa pliug., culling* set iu the giuuao, aud only these."—Hau Pntttuisco Kiauiuer. A Myalerluws fundus The tvivuliltc uitu iu this capital are utuch eturcisetl over a fuugus that has reveutly tuade its appearance upou the ullve trees ahi. lt are oue uf the priucipal fealuies lu the country around Chal< ». Il ha* Ihe ap|tearauc* uf a reddish blotch, aud play* the Very d»uoe wild the tree* Imwmttkm. FtounlawtfrH*N Ml «•( decided either upou the ualure uf the luugus ot the tented) lot saute. I'hey are sl*u csereialug their wit* upon a uiys< terhMM illmmss which I* at'st kiu j the Itie Utflcal eypreaae* uf I'hspulleptc, Iu the yett IIT7 then isere I*l of then* uuUie sous ol Ibu loli <l, 1U goo I cudlltou At the piiMMst writing lurly u| * heist are already dead, eud suudr* other* are IN a very bast **> Th*tttettttsl*uf Items*#, with a seal Itn Ihe u< the psiMn fftvuttlW a hit It is twj.uid all pt*l*o, art. ssiiloualy takiug tostasel «i h Mw heal meaneuf *astug the Iteleute. fits) Ibiita thai aaul ui the aeseseaii »*i»t has a . ood dsal lo du mill U. «»t'ilj el liaitce lay Hi^alilas, NO. 31. LOVE. Bright are the jewels of the mlna, And rich their radiant gleam. When wrought in many a quaint device, They flash their flery stream. A thousand charms are in their hearts Our senses to enthrall. With gold and silver they are bought, But love is worth them all' Sweet are* the blossoms we behold In summer's glorious prime. The dear companions that enhance The joys of summer time; In wondrous beauty they appear. In sadder beauty fall; j Our darlings for a few brief hours. But love outlasts them all! Beyond the present treasures lie,. And flowers perfume the way; The air-looms of an ancient house, Whose glories ne'er decay. A whisper from the promised land. Inspires the earnest soul: "Eternity is thy reward, And love shall win the goal P* —Josephine Pollard, in the Woeltly. HUMOR OF THE DA Y. A bad reputation is a bard thing to lose.—Boston Transcript. As soon as wo form a habit wc have ft master.—Detroit Free Press. The strictest railroad about issuing passes may occasionally pass a dividend. —Lowell Gazette. Dancing masters are generally posted as to the latest movements on foot.— Philadelphia Record. When you are asked to hold the baby, it wiJJ never do 'to "shoulder the re sponsibility."—Truth. Britannia rules the wave, but she doesn't control the tide. That't all moonshine.—Chicago Tribune. Briggs—"Do you think that Robinson loves her?" Griggs—"He went shop ping with her."—Cloak Review. When a big corporation is reorganized the small stockholders are generally dis organized.—Baltimore American. Smell o' woods n-fire Creakin' garden gate; Poet with a lyre- Liar diggin bait! —Atlanta Constitution. How much more affectionate the mem bers of a family group are in their photo graph than they are out of it.—Atchison Globe. The reason that the average man is unable to"put himself in your place" is that he feels altogether too big to fill it. —Washington Star. That school teacher -ho put pepper on the tongues of nupils ex plains that her ultimate objetv. "M to make them smart.—Philadelphia Times. Young man, when you escort a young lady to the piano be sure that the music is done to a turn before you turn over two leaves at once.—Detroit Free Press. You say that I'm your sheltering oak That will not yield when tempests crash; But I am so consumed by love, I should in truth be called an ash. —Puck. The two-headed boy may not have so many corns in proportion to his size as other boys, but he must have a great deal more toothache.—Binghamton Repub lican. Young Lady—"Havs you 'A Heart That I Can Call My Own?'" Music Clerk—"Well—er--aw—not just uow, miss; another has a claim on it."—De troit Free Press. Oh, I lovfl the sweet old posts Who sang of love so true! But I wish they'd left a little Kor ine to sing of, too. —Puck. "What luck did you have wheu you were out huntiug yesterday?" "The wont iu the world. It's very strange that the birds never fly where 1 shoot." —Texaa Sittings. One of Her Pets: She—"l always havo a great many pets about me," He (tenderly)—" Ana I one of them?" She —"Yes. You are my pet aversion."— New York Uerald. Kre be w»< wed his k irt was light. And he would sing fro •» morn till night, But since his hleased babe was born He's got to sing froiu night tilt nioru' -(ioo.lall's Sun. "Why, Jackson, thia isn't a bit the kind of a house I supposed you would build I" "No; I'ui rather surprised my self, but the architect U very well satis tied."—Loudou 'Fid-Hit*. A damsel of twelve who dislike* boys wrote uu essay upon theua, in whioii she said, "l< 1 had my way half the boy* iu the world would l>e girl* and the other halt would be dolls."—Modem Society. "The last time I saw you. Hilt, you were coin plaiuiag about the woll at the door, and uow you siiuply wal.ow in wealth." "I kn.»w it. I caught the wolf and eshibited hiuj."—New York Time*. Hrlw't Population- Accordiug to the latest and most re liable estimates the population of the Dark Continent i* placed at 1M.000.00U, or fourteen Inhabitant* to the stiuaru utile, while the population of the riireu Auienc.is i* given at 113,713,(HM, of eight inhabitant* to the square mile. It inuet be remembered that while e»pl«f*te tell us ol large district* IU Africa that are acsstllji populated, there are also vast regions densely populated, of ehh'h but few peraurn have ever heard It may I* taut be said that only the fringe wlthe iMik Continent has a* >et been reached after luuu ye*m of intermittent etpi jrati >« New Orleans Pit 4) tree. The Uistrtel el t'elMwfcta. IU. District ol Columbia wee origin ally ten wile* situate, 18" square mite* m tree ui tilts auty '•*"« xiuais mitee lul I"! t»» ifc" National ttoveiuiMsut by Maryland in if?# and thirty tit ntw Mile* by Virginia la i 7air ,u l&tti the pur Won u| lire |i»tri«i east ul the IMwwv we*' *«le»l beet to Vif gltin, leasing it* |iieeedt area Mity fww '•psare m l '*s Iu |«up'ilatlon by the lest • * naiis it 9§u,iS9, .usinii is the eity el W •htNlWe. —IM. IsKMlt HepobUu.
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