SULLIVAN *§®ilfe REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEYy^hitilisher. VOL. X. 1 The stationary coudition of France's population in point of numbers may be in part accouutcd for, explains the New York Sun, by the fact that among v 38,000 communes there arc 29,000 with out medical men. -Thus the recent statement on medical authority that , enough infant lives are sacrificed to ig norance to repopulate France if pre served, seems to have a substantial foundation o( fact to rest upon. Ten years ago Marylun I aud Virgin ia supplied three-fifths of all the oysters of tho country at a prico easily within reach of ordinary means. Now, laments thp. Bilti;nore Sun, owing to the enormous decrease in their yield, . the prices are twice as great, and the poor people cannot buy them. It is the importance of the bivalve as a cheap and wholesome food that makes the con dition of the crop in the Chesapeake Bay u matter of National interest. The salary of an Excise Commissioner of New York City is §5003 a year and a term of office three years. There is also a lot of valuable patronage. The Excise Board has seventy-two ollices to till by appointment, the aggregate salary of which is $131,7/5 a year. The chief ofliees within the gift of tho Board are au attorney at §SOOO a year, a secretary at S3OOO a year, an assistant secretary aud a cashier at $3 > )0 a year each, a chief inspector at $3500, and eleven special inspectors at SISOO a yc'ar each. The Spanish Columbian Exposition, to be held next September iu Madrid, has been very rarely mentioned in this country. This is a remarkable fact, and especially so because naturally it would be thought desirable to induce the Span ish Government to permit the exhibits to be brought bodily to Chicago in 18U3. The Spaniards are adepts at preparing spectacles. The proposed exhibits of tho condition of Europe and the condi tion of America at the time of the dis covery cannot fell to be of great iuterest and should be procured for the wider exhibition in this country. By direction of the Secretary of War the following is published for the infor mation of ail concerned: It having be«u represented to the War Department that necessity exists 112. - ci""ing prompt and safe facilities to persons who desire to make contributions for the intellectual and moral welfare of the enlisted men of the army, tho Secretary of War author izes the Adjutant-General to receive, free of expanse to the sender, such con tributions of books, periodicals, pham plets and papers as may be sent to him by philanthropic persons for distribu tion to the army, especially to the troops iu the far West." Ti e boundary liue between Mexico aud tho United States is so illy pa trolled that bandits in tho guise of re volutionists have very little difficulty in raising a row iu .Mexico, aud when close ly pressed, retreating over the border. There is no quest..iu, says the S-iu Fran cisco Chrouicie, that the L'uitoi States troops do all ut tiicir power to prevent our soil being niade a base lor operations of tho kind referred to, but there are net enough of thuui to take earo of our long frontier, and as a cause (utnee there are frequent incursions from this side into Mexico. Tho 1 itter nation usually dis play* so much eiieigy in hunting down Apaches when they uudertaku to raid its soil that it see us surprising that tho •lender bands of alleged revolutionists should »kip for .Yard aud backward with impunity. Can it he possible that tho people of N •rtlieru M vieo are iu sym pathy with the revolutionist*, or so-called bandits, an I do not dosireto catch themf The circumstances eem to poiut that I way. The National Un||4 ol Fire Under writers, which .i 'oriued of ihu leading lire insurance compai les doing business iu the United Statn, ha» «een an oilientl letter to I'residnut Harrison, calling his attention to (he ureal waste of values by lire in tint couutry, which ha* uow n tche I an euoruiou* sum auuually, aud | ap|»ui-« lobe tuuci-iug year by year. Iu l-»M the climated destruction of j vatus was #ti|,OUO,Oia»i in ihe li mrd of estimated loss »its about one huii lis d and forty millions of dollar* that is, lite lire hiss st ems to be Itirrmi- Itu "|t itity be pi.uUil out," com Uieuts the lUIOM II al.|, "that |lm: A SPRING POEM FROM BIOH "Tell me, Myrson, tell me true, What's tho season pleaseth youf » Is it summer suits you best, When from harvest toil we rest? Is it autumn with its glory Of all surfeited desires? Is it winter, when with story And with song we hu? our flresT Oris it spring most fair to you— Come, good Myrson, tell mo truei" Another answereth: "What tho gods in wisdom sand We should question not, my Irien'J; Yet, since you entreat of me, I will answer reverently: He the summer time displeases, For its sun is scorching hot; Autumn brings such dire diseases, That perforce I like it not; As for bitter winter, oh! How I hate its ice and snow! "But, thrice welcome, kindly spring, With the myriad gifts you bring I Not too hot nor yet too cold, 'iraciously your charms unfold— Ob, your days are like the dreaming Of those nights which love beseems. And your nights have nil the seeming Of those days of golden dreams! Heaven smiles down on earth, and then Earth smiles up to heaven again!" —Eugene Field, in Chicago News. A STROKE FOR LIBERTY, BY FREDERICK M. COLBY. fHE 9th of May, The day was serenely fair,aud the warm sun shine of spring shone plensant ly upon a beau tiful scene. A broad, green clearing sloping toward the long tract of the fair stretching wa ters of Lake Champlain, which seemed to lie asleep in the rays of the descending luminary. Through the clearing meandered a pretty little brook, which emptied itself into the lake at a place where a narrow bay indented the laud. In the midst of the opening, and but a few rods from the shore of the lake, stood a-n old fashioned farmhouse, with an outhouse, barn and garden, all showing signs of more or less enterprise and thrift. From the chim ney of the farmhouse curled a cloud rrf smoke that floated dreamily ovei ttie landscape, and finally melted away in distinguishably with the vapory ntmo3 phere. Several other chimneys belong ing to scattered farmhouses that stood farther back from the lake were sending up smoke likewise, aud back of tho little settlement, with green uplands and forests between, extended a ridge of hills, forest-clad to thcirsuminits. Across the lake and in full view rose tho frown- ! i»g walls of Ticonderoga, from which I floated the lion fiat; of Great Britain, i soon to be plucked down by the fearless I hands of the free sons of America. "Supper will be ready as soon as Na- j than comes," said a matronly woinau ap- j pearing at the door of tho farmhouse, j sleeves rolled to the elbow, aud the I signs of culiuary toil apparent on her j perse n. "It's time that he was here," replied Farmer Beman as he straightened up from | bending over a harrow that he was ; mending, mid turned his bronzed honest face towards the lake. "He isn't usually ! so late us this." The figure in the doorway followed ' (lie direction of his gaze, sliadiug her 1 eyes with one huud from the rays of the westirlng sun. "I think be is coming now; yes, that ! Is his boat. You can just see it in the | glare of the sun. Well,l suppo«o you'll, j be reaily when he gets here." And Mrs i Beman disappeared within the kitchen. The He run us being thrifty people and living ou the shore of the lake, here culy I a mile wide, were iu the habit of aeudiug i their produce to the fort, where the soldiers paid good prices for the same. { Their >on Nathan, a boy of fourteen, usually acted a* agent on these occasions, aud this particular afternoon he had ] rowedPacross the lake with a basket of poultry aud fresh eggs for the garrison. , He had started immediately after dinner, and expected to Ins back iu three hours, j but it was nearly ix o'clock as he drove | his canoe up the mouth of the little' brook and anchored it to a cluuip of ( hsxt-l busbe>. He walked up the path, j crushing whole phalanxes of the starry . blossoms of the white wood violets—a sturdy boyish figure, clad in shirt aud trousers, without shoes aud with it rag ged cocked hat ou his head. Whistling merrily, basket on arui, he eutered the \ farmhouse, from the <s|seu door aud j wiudowsof which uow caiuo the fragrant odors of steaming flapjacks aud hoecakes | aud pennyroyal tea. •'You are lale, Nithan," said his Mother, who wan just ptiuriug a cup of ' the hot drink. "Yts, mother, 1 know I am, but there was a good deal to »«e, ami I wouldn't ' seeui to get away." "Anything uew at old Tit " a«k«d Mi Ueiuau •'Nothing particular, father, only tin y'vu got a barber there." "A whatf" •'A bail er, « man who cuts hair ami | »!»«•« )ou. The soldiers w«i« all belug 1 i a hi M> MM •"Utu of them i "l»i I )<<u «ci the coMimaudaut I " "¥«», Capuoi tie la I'iaeu bought the j iliii kses aud egg* himself, au l look me |iia town to |.«) mi . Ila luld m«, mo iln i, that In itid not M*t sue It a in. Mis. Itentau •Mitlwl milt pleas*! Van "ami utak* muit, Uthuv) litsu |.lut poultry titan I <lm I'm ifi <ai>n H>* «*M, Me »e *ia aj« tugeth** < LAPOKTE, PA., FEIDAY, JUNE 3, 1892. But, Nathan, you are thoughtful. What arc you thinking about?" 'Oh, I was thinking how easy old T1 could be taken," answered Nathan. "Capturo old Ti!" exclaimed his father, " why, lad, the thing's impossi ble. Abercrombie lost two thousand men there in 'SB, and young Lord Howe was killed. I wasn't ten feet from him when ljie fell. The fort's impregnable But what in the world put the thought in your head? Who is there to tako it." •'I don't know, father, but ever since we heard of the battle of Lexington be tween the redcoats and our farmers, I have been thinking how old Ti might be taken, don't know how careless they nre. There were no sentinels on duty this afternoon, aud the soldiers were drinking aud gambling." "That may be, but Ticonderoga isn't a sal tc be takeu by the first wooer. 'Twould jc a great stroke for liberty, but no, no, there's nobgdy to do it." And Farmer Beman, who was a thor oughly patriotic American, shook his hoad firmly. But as, the former and Nathan wero milking the cows that night, tramp, tramp, tramp, came the sound of many feet, and rising with their filled pails to see what the matter might be, they saw the road filled with more thau three hundred armed men. "They arc not redcoats, but who can they be?" asked the elder Beman with honest surprise. lie was answerod by the appearance of two officers of rank—one a large, tall man of Herculean cast, dressed in high heavy boot?, bud breeches and waistcoat, and a high collnred white shagcoat; the other a slighter man, Imt well made and of noble bearing, whose garments were richer and more fashicnable in their cut. Doth wero on horse back ana woro swords, epaulettes and other insignia of rank. "As I'm alive, its Colonel Ethan Al len!" exclaimed Farmer Beman, address ing the colossal figure. "Andyou are Ebenezer Beman," cried the famous Green Mountain hero. "This is Colonel Arnold, and we are on our way to take old Ti." "You must be mad, Cojonel Allen," cried the farmer aghast. "General Aber crombio had fifteen thousand men and failed." * "But lam not General Abercrombie, nor docs insanity run iu my family," an swered Allen, sturdily. "Yonder fort will be in the hands of free men to-mor row morning, or Ethcn Allen will be no more among the living." Young Nathan Beman stood looking with all Ills eyes upon the stalwart figure of the Green Mountain hero, who to him was the personification of everything great nud glorious in the world. The looks of Arnold he did not like as well, iho had a reckless air and a proud, ccn cmptuous expression of countenance, but those Hashing eyes and sinister lips did not then foretell the ill fame that was to come to this brave and gifted man. "I suppose you have made provision for boats to transport your troops across the lake, Colonel Allen," said the farmer. "I have sent a party to secure what boats they could above here, and another party has gone to Skenesboro, but I trusted to liud certain craft at this place," answered Allen. "Could I have been misinformed 1" "There is an excellent scow a half-mile above here, and there are a dozen skills down yonder that you are welcome to." "And now, Mr. Beman," said Allen, bending upon him the steady gazo of his stern blue eyes, "do you know of any one that wo can depend on as a guide, some one that knows all about tho fort and its approaches! I wish to avoid if 1 possible any danger from the salute of a charge of grapeshot or canister from tho wide-mouthed war dogs of old Ti."' "I don't know of nuy one that knows , old Ti luttcr than my son Nathan here. He goes over there as often as once a w.^ek." "And can you, young man, conduct us to the fort and show 11s the way to the I Commandant's quarters) Are you sure { ' you can do it?'* Colonel Allen's voice | was stern and decisive, for it was an iin | portant tank that was required, aud the ! person that servo 1 him must not fail him. "I know the fort as well as I know our house yonder," declared Nathan boldly. "I've been all over it by day light, sir, uud 1 think 1 could Hud my way over it by night." "And do you know wlioru the com mandant'* quarters are!" inquired Arnold. "I've been there a do/en times, sir, ami should kuow the place blindfolded," answered the lad. "Then you are the boy for us," re turned the other, "Colonel Allen, if we get the boats, the moruiug sun will see the red llag of Kngluud pullel down from yonder rainptrta." "Aye, aud wu will lui|M! that It will never iloat there again," retpon led Alien, solemnly. During the ueit few hours the soldiers were busy gathering the boats of the neighborhood, audit was a little aftei midnight that Allen ml Arnold au I | about eighty of the tr>»>pa cros.eil In Ills* 1 ivuateru slime of Ihe lake. The bints I 1 buy i'a peeled from rtkeuesburo aud Pan ' 1011 did uot arrive, hut neither of the gieat l.i lure dated delay uuy longer, lu ihe ln»t boat that er<n*cd went Nathan Uemau, the buy guide of Ihe e«|seditl»u. I Aft«*r lauding iheii passengers lh« I bout• were sent back lot another load, 1 .visile their companions wailed 011 the ! lone of ibe lake. It was a soft May 1 t iiMitl, blight wills stsrllghl. 'l ite j | kept up their limine through all the night hours, and at Intervals the eh up : ijlultht * hippo.,, .ill sounded a -Ila I 1 pasnu. The 11 rat stieak ol ihe dawn ap j ' Kitten Alien gestsd auilously sclom It will never do to wail hi ih» boats It* It'WiU lift IMi|U«(Vi| 11«4 * I»mUi J IMAJ >U U*HI *» I III* I l Uv |t tltfcMt 1 Ihe wen stw •esrfi tln||l| diens, up in three ranks upou the shore, and in a few brief words Allen told them of his determination. Then placing himself at their head, he called to Nathan Beman. "Conduct us to the tally port, and mind that you do not run into any un necessary danger." The boy guide looked up into the face of his superior officer with a firm, brave glance. "I am not afraid, sir, and per haps God will fight lor us." "God will fight for us," cried tho Green Mountain hero, clasping Nathan's hand. "Forward, men, in the name of the Lord!" Slowly and silently the little troop ad vanced. The vast bulk of the fortress rose dark and frowning above them. No sound came from the walls. The band of light in the east had broadened into a great, glowing bolt of radiance. Up within twenty paces of the en trance gate they marched before their presence was discovered. The surprised sentinel gazed in mute astonishment'and alarm for an instant; then raising his musket he levelled it iull at tho tower ing figure of Allen. Luckily the weapon missed fire, and as he turned to flee the patriots followed him. "This way," cried Nathan, running under a covered walk within the walls. In a brief time the rushing column of Americans swept like a whirlwind into tho parade in front of the arracks, where they gave three thundering cheers that made the old walls tremble, and roused the Sleeping garrison from their beds in wild dismay at the unwonted sound. Filing off in two divisions, the patriots formed a lino of forty men along each of the two ranges of barracks, so that the soldiers of the fortress were made prison ers as fast as they arrived upon -th® scene. "Now, Nathan, lead me to Captain de la Place's room," commanded Allen, sword in baud. Up tho stairway sprung tho boy and the great leader, and in auotber moment the hero's sword was banging away upon the commandant's door. Captain dc la Place came to the door, his clothes iu his hnnd, but when he saw the majestic form of Allen, he stood amazed and speechless. "I demand the immediate surrender ! of this fort, Captain de la Place!" cried Allen. "But by whose authority do you make this bold domand of his Majesty's fortress'" asked the commandant, scarcely realizing the situation, which was no wonder. "In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress," replied Allen in a tono that could not be gain said. De la Place relinquished his sword and the capture was complete. The spoil that fell into the hands of the victors consisted of one hundred and twenty pieces of iron cacnon, fifty swivels, ten tons of musket balls, three cartloads of fliuts, a lot of gunpowder, a fine array of muskets and a large quan tity of other stores, all of which proved of incalculable bonefit to tho patriot army near Boston. As the sun rose up over the green hills of Vermont, Nathsn Beman stood beside Allen and Arnold on the ramparts of Ticonderoga, while British cannon were pealing forth their deep-moutbod thunder to the reverberating mountains —the proclamation of victory. "God has iudecd fought for us," said Allen solemnly, as he placed bis baud upon tho boy guide's shoulder. "Aye, and it is the first triumph of young freedom over tho arms of her haughty oppressor," cried the future hero of Quebec and Saratoga.—Now York Observer. A Famous Island Washing Away. Sharp's Islaud, a famous old fishing and guuning spot on tho Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, is rapidly washing away. Tho island is situated near the mouth of the Chesapeake Itiver. The storms of tho last two wiuteis have undermined aud carried into the bay nil tho fine old trees that stood on the banks. The island was granted to John iiateman by letters pat ent from the lord proprietary of the pro vince ol Maryland, February 2-1, 11109. In 1675 Sharp sold it to John Kasou for 2100 pounds of tobacco. The island origin illy containe I over 1000 acres. A survey made in 18M.H showed 300 acres, and now it is scarcely one-third that size. No one uow lives ou the islaud. A few years ago William l>eony put two female mid oue mule rabbit on the islsud, there being uoue there. Now there are thousands.—Chicago Herald. The llciuant anil Loafer* of Naples. A ceutury ago there were 30,1)00 "lax saroui" in Naples. Neither disease uor want has dliuiuUhed their number. Their children die at a fearful rate, but thero are many hospitals for the survivors, aud ceitlier board nor lodging costs thein much wheu, at a mature age, they are turned louse iuto the world to become "lasaatoul" iu their turu, like their uu kuuwii fathers aud mothers. What la a "lass iroulf" may be asked. According to i'oletta he is a being who lives how he can without working, if he puts hand to houe»t labor he is no longer a "lassaroite," It may be dotib'ud wlit l lter v "laasaioue" will ever become «* v Tlte "ruaauitatiou" scheme will n>< ' Itiiu uor make hiut change bis habu 's uiore than half what his t lluiato Jfc sins. Vuterii au Faiuter. Cure let l'ieiuiueut Kars. Wheu a boy sol girl's ears are abnor mally large, or stick out from the hetd ia au ugly lashlou, It may be acceptti I as a distinct niufoitouu Nobody ad> •itne« eabu ige leave* in lieu ol tin pretty piuk shell .ti.tped organ* of hoariag that sit wutii I like to have, if allowed la give a feei puiu la Ms mother nature adults she aas engaged iu tlsu ta*k of ,ntaklstg up • (oil lot ..I aunt isia* appendant** "I'lte best tisso ft'i piootlueul vase la as» obi l«>lsiolti~d night l ap tied duwuelts*# I. It ail ■■ lisfUbls I ban olitti else. lb. «HU< kntsws « Ueuttful boy a Insets eel have I.mu tiatnsd «eiy suM.ctfniif In lb* way lbs} sb aid g», by *t»to tiuspl< b«at msisl - Ne» Volfc Haas. AN AMERICAN LANGUAGE. INTERESTING WAY IN WHICH A.N INDIAN SYMBOLIZED SOUND. A New System of Recording Speech, and How It Was Invented by an Illiterate Native American. ETHNOLOGIST PILLING,of tho Bureau of Ethnology, said to a Washington Star reporter : "As a work of ingenuity tho alpha bet of the English language is not in it with the Cherokee syllabary. The syl labary I speak of was invented by a half breed Indian named Sc-quo-yah. Ue was entirely uneducated, not even know ing how to read any language. But he had become acquainted with the princi ple of the alphabet—namely, that marks can be made the symbols of sounds. Ae cordingly this untutored genius con ceived the noticn that he could express all the syllables in the Cherokee tongue by distinct characters. "He first went to work to collect in his memory all the syllabic sounds in the Cherokee language which he was able to recall. He found tho number to be eighty-six, and for ench of these ho de vised a peculiar mark. At the begin ning lie drew the marks in the sand and and after lie had them made to his satis faction he transferred them to paper. For some of them he took the letters of our own alphabet, using various modi fications of the lioman letters, together with some characters of his own inven tion, for the rest. "Each of theso eighty-six characters stood for a certain syllable sound and the entire eighty-six comprised all the sylla bles used in the Cherokee language. With these symbols ho set about writing let ters, aud by means of them a correspond ence was soon actually maintained be tween Indians of bis race in Wills valley and their relatives beyond tho Mississippi, five hundred miles away. This was done by individuals who could not speak Eng lish and who had never learned any tip phabet except this syllable one, which Se-quo-yah had invented, taught to others aud introduced into practice. "The remarkable point about this syllabary was the rapidity with which it could be learned and utilized for writing and reading. After the English alpha bet has been learned a considerable period of schooling is required before the most intelligent porson can read or write the language composed with it. But, with the aid of this set of Chevokeo symbols, the average Indian, without any previous instruction in the written signs of any language, can learn to read and write in Cherokee fairly well within two weeks aud fluently within four weeks. A more than ordinarily intelligent person can learn to read and write with tho symbols iu a week's time. "As soon as Se que-yah had published his invention interest in it rapidly spread, until at length young Cherokces would travel for great distances to obtain in struction in this easy method of writing and readiug. Within a few days they were able to begin writing letters, and upon returning to their native villages they taught others. At present the sylla bary is in general use atnong the Clicro keoi, and tliere is no part of the Nation where it is not understood. Iu no other language c\u the art of reading be ac quired with nearly the same faculty. The first book printed in the characters was probably a collection of Cherokee hymns, published iu 1889; but previously to that, in 1828, the first number of tho Cherokee Plußuix, a weekly newspaper, were issued at New Eciiota partly in English and partly in the syllabary. "This Cherokee alphabet is altogether syltubic except for one letter, which answers to the English S, and is placed bctweeu tho syllables to give a hissing sound. There is not a consonant in tho whole sixty-nine characters. Iu tho Cherokee lauguage thero is not a souud 112, j, p uor v. The tougue is guttural, unci a person speaking Cherokee can talk all day and not have occasion to close his lips. Se-qu >-yah°s English name was George Guess. He was born in Georgia iu 177 Dof u Cherokee mother. I nui creditably informed that tho father of the 'Americau Cadmus' as lie has been culled, was Colouel Nathaniel (iist, who was with Washington at llraddock's de feat and who was takeu prisoucr by thn Cherokee*, among whoiu he reujaiucd live or six years. "Se-quo-yah is said to have had as a boy no likiu,' for the rude sports of other ludian youths, prefernug to str'jll alone in the woods, where he employe 1 himself in building little houses with sticks. His first attempts iu the direc tion of his invention were addressed to devising word signs, but he soon found that this plait would require too uiuiiy characters. Tiie •ylUbury was adopted by the Cherokee Council iu 18'jll, 4 silver medal being awarded to tin luveutor as a tokeu of adimratiou for hit geuius and of gratitude for the service he bad rendered to his people, the medal was Made iu Wasliiu^tou. "Four years later the American Hoard of Foreign Missiuus defrayed the cmt of taatiug a lout of type of the characteia, aud Iroiu this time ou publications iu the syllabary to multiply, At present tie literaluiu of the Cherokee laUKUage, composed with iliumi sigus, consist* of at oies of book » aud pamph lets, iut ludlug peiiodii tis, alutaita.s, school ho iks, li t- U, laws, tile rhemkee CoUtlllUlloU, the H ho!■ ul It, S. 4 Testament aud unset of Use s »-•!. I bus there earns iuto use a uew system ol ru. Illlleiale wsu, alike ol book* aud ul Ihe variout ails by which kao*|. U disseminated- -epiatiuel system devised by a uallve Auniiceii lor ibe perpetuation of a uaiive Autti>eau laa gtMfce. It la estimated that ii,ooi»,iii*i pouads ol maple su < si.msiot'a. lun d lu VsiiuoMl, a® u 1 The luteal hop |aid In Ihe WolUt tain "tittm• -itn. falsi, IUIS, •with bet'iitf base sold 1. -m lilt| som, Terms—sl.oo in Advance; $1.25 after Three Monthi. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The wire-wound gun is the newest thing in heavy ordnance. Thin belts, as wide as possible, give by far the best results working vertically. A thick vertical belt will not hug the pulleys. A comet with three tails, each 10,- 000.000 miles long, has come into the view of a Lick (California) observatory astronomer. Secret trials at Spandau» Germany, with a carbonic acid rifle reservoir have proved very successful. With one charge 300 shots can be fired. The largest telephone switchboard iu the world is that in the Exchange at Berlin, Germany, where 7000 wires are connected with the main office. Mr. Allard, of Levis, Canada, has, after twenty years of labor, discovered a method of tempering red copper, and has sold his secret to a rich Americau. A shoemaker in Berlin, Germany, has invented an artificial sole of stono for use in shoes. It is elastic and easy on the feet, and is calculated to last for years. An English zoologist urges the syste matic domestication of the zcbr.i. It. would be a most useful transport ani mal, and it would be saved from ex tinction. A refrigerator has just beeu made in New York which will froezo five hun dred tons of ice in twenty-four hours. The raachiue weighs 175 tons and was built for St. Louis. An important invention has been made in the adaptation of magnetic electricity to the prevention of the slipping of car wheels. The use of it, it is claimed, will increase the hauling power of au engine many percent. Hiram Maxim, the American inventor, is still busy at Crayford, England, in con structing his flying machine, or, rather, his apparatus, "for ascertaining how much power is actually required to per form flight with a screw-driven aeroplane." An erodcr dredger was recently tested ou a shoal composed of sand and other alluvial matter, which was disintegrated and mixed with the wnter and carried Away in suspension. The amount of work done was estimated at thirty-live cubic yardi of material removed per hour. The British Consul at. Mozambique mentions that there exißts on the cast coast, south of the Zambesi River, a roef of pearl oysters. The greater portion of the reef is within enclosed waters, and, as it has never been regularly worked, the peails which could be found thero must be of considerable dimensions. The bacillus of diphtheria is believed to develop with sj/tcial rapidity In tho preseuce of warmth, moisture and dark ness, several outbreaks of the disease have been traced to cesspools or sewers into which steam and hot water were discharged. The artificial heat seems to have wakened into activity germs which, if undisturbed, would have remained dormant. Metals Denrer T'"m Gold. Many of tho eleinentacy metals are more valuable than gold. To speak of of them as being mined is, however, hardly precise. They are extracted by tedious and expensive processes in chemi cal laboratories in infinitesimal quantities. Tho following is a recently prepared list of the elements whose market value ex ceeds that of gold, the price of the latter being $299.72 per pound, avoiid ipois: \ alue k'. r JJt. mill ■ AT l.'i Vanadium. 10 Indium (1,523 OS Rubidium... 3,'itll B0 Ruthenium. 1,.i)l li-t Calcium 'J.-Htl 'Jo Coluiubium. I,'J.VJ •> I.antulum... *J,44iiJO Rtiodtuiu..,. I.IKI.'M Cerium 2,44<i'JO Barium !UI I'. r.ithlu.n(wiiv) 41 Thallium.,, 7JS il. " (globules) •J.'J'JS 7ii Osmium.... 65'J It'J Er'jiuni I,STI .17 Palladium.. 4'Wil Uidyiuium... 1,11.1008 Iridium.... 400 s!' Strontium... 1,570 44 j Uranium. . -M4 8S The;* are not nominal values, as tnany of the elements are used in tho arts. Vanadium, for instance, is employe 1 iu the production of uniliuo black. It re quires some twenty-live distinct chemi cal operations to extract vanadium fro u sandstone.—New York Herald. Lived mid Diet! Together. There died iu Ward's Islau 1 Hospital on Friday afternoou, of consumption, iu the same r ioiii aud on adjoining beds, two meu who were inseparable coinpau ions for over forty years. Their uauics were Johu Murphy, a laborer sixty-two years old, aud Peter Dully, also a luborcr, sixty-flve years old. They were both born iu the same town iu Limerick Coun ty, Ireland. They knew each other iu their young days and ware always to gether. When Peter started for America to better his fortune Johu packed his grip aud came with tiiui. They worked to* gelher, drauk together aud lived togeth er fur many years They hired a room in the lodging houte at 47 i Pearl street, aud stayed there until a few weeks ago, wheu they were found iu the street des titute aud sick. They were both re moved to Ward's Islaud Hospital. O.i Friday afternoon they both died of e • i smnptiou within ten minutes ol each other.—New York Man, The 111-rat fcwuril I II), Liailleuaul t'laike.of the I'siltad®lato« Aituy, iu wiuiug from lieiuuuy to a frit*ud in llalliiuore mentions a visit t i holingtu, German*, the famous sword utauulat turiug town. ||« slates the swofd blades, bayouela aud kulvct ate manufactured ou a 'atge scale, but that all ihu utachluea used iu the lactofieear* made in Amu live The lilies blade* are made by haad and are lutsuuled by Ihe laige mauufactureis, by witont the) sue Suit), line Ml lltu usual skillful ot those • a.nl makers was the beepeiol sresiau iai.l abuse I .lt uUuaut Clarke Usssk break fast, lie MStllhy being uu Ur Use leatao l.ul I ||« reupllng ol *wo»,| UtaklUg With olitel oti .psltoi i seems t" b» com tsixt! villi purwho p>t*eae» the tsuisl ui a>ak iug the It***t ids Us Mr aU« is aits fivayts#* NO. 34. TfIEES. Bet out trees! adorn the homestead, Moke it pleasant all round, Let the elms and oaks and maple* AVith the evergreen abound; Let the home be so attractive That the boy that is to-day When he shall arrive at manhood And in foreign lands may »tray. Then with longing heart and loving To his home these hills among, Thinking how the trees are thriving Which he helped to plant when young, Stet out trees! yes, plant an orchard; Hear, good farmers, do you know Of the wealth there is in fruit trees For the labor you bestow? How the apples turn to money, With the peaches, plums and pears, And the luscious, bright red cherries, All the fruits the orchard bears? Little children love the fruit tress. How they wait, with what delight, For the coming of their blossoms, In their lovely pink and white; Never flowers were half so pretty. Never such profusion shown, As Damo Nature gives the fruit, trees, With a glory all their own. Set out trees! along the highway, Place them thick on either side, In the present joyous springtime, Every one his part provide; Bet out walnuts, chestnuts, beeches, Where the playful squirrels come; In hemlocks, firs and spruces Shall the song birds And a home. Let their branches growing, twininj, Forming arches o'er the way. Shield the horse and screen the rider Through the long, hot summer day. Thick green leaves the golden sunshiue Hiding while the dogstar reigns; Then when autumn paints them gayly Carpeting the hills and plains. Sot out trees I upon the common, Ashes, lin lens, poplars birch; Bet them out around the school liousp, Place them thick nbo'd the church, Have the children's play ground shaded And the public walks us well. And the joys from these arising C6ming agos glad will tell. These shall live and grow and gladen While we moulder 'neat.u their leaves. Let us then improvo the present, I leave behind us priceless trees. —Mrs. Annie G. Marshall, in N. K Farmer. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. The line of beauty—Aquiline. Always malting brakes—Westing house.—Life. The deaf-mute is always rendy to take ti band in conversation.—Puck. The stamp of truth won't tako a letter through the mails.—Chicago Blade. Tho wing shot ousht to be a bang-up marksman.—Bingham) on Rumblicaa. The hungry boy is the first to realize wheu he is too big for half-fare Truth. The thief who made a break for liberty forgot that brakes were made to restrain. —Truth. Why shouldn't we speak of the driving clouds? Don't they hold the rains) Lowell Courier. A live wire i9 so called because it is frequently the cause of sudden death.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Man is not merely the architect of his own fortune, but he must lay the bricks himself.—Ualveston News. Little Edith gives expression to tho thought that poetry is prose with its gloves on.—Boston Transcript. "I think I'll give tho country the shake," remarked the malaria us it pre pared for business.—Texas Siftings. The road-reform movement is becoin ing a landslide. Tho country is fast fitting ready to :ueud its ways.—Chicago Tribune. Saiuso—"You wife doesn't look a minute older than she did ten years ago." Hicks—''According to her statistics the isn't."—Tid-Bits. "So Oonety has married Mis* Ruler and formed a copaitnership for life!" "Yes. And he's the silent paituer, too. '— i» istou Ntw*. Au bouust man is so jealous of his honor that he i« indignant if he is not instantly believed wheu he telis the truth —and a'so when he lies.—Puck. ■less—"l)id you know Harry's father was » Congressman!" Bess—"No; ho never mentioned it; bat I sur uisrd theio was a skeleton in tho family clesol."—» New Yora llernld. Ciiollio—"Tiiitik I'll chftnxe uie l»oot maker.'' Chappie—"Ha *?" "Haw. The beast awskod uiu if 1 would watber have me ihoes well shape I or did 1 pwefer a lit."—lndian ip >lis Journal. "I don't think," said Cia*.i, "tl.at these Dowel* match my coinpls \<on, do youl" "No, thty don't," mid Maude, "mid you mustn't go out that way Hui 1 wouldn't bother to change the do* r* if I were you."—Cloak Heview, Hie'or lllaek —"I was yla Ito see you in ehurvli yesterday uioruiug. What did you think of my exordium and pero ral ion T" Mr, Easy— "Hretiy but—" Hector Black—"Hm whet I' .Mi. liny—"Hut they Hunt just a little 100 («r apart,"—H-ston tiea. w. (" 'try He ItaVei'l tin* Washington giti'i uaate. Au allaelie of tin British legation lit addirv>lu|( her said, "I am xitijf that the Iknug im trouble is look int. »o sen. his, btenuse with her Splendid naval equipment Ureal IMtailt koulil ni|a you oil the laeu of tho «oit».'' I'tiu yoitUtf l«>iy retorted, "What, efc'aiui" .Vol then dim s ilasU it »lleiu*> Lllea OUuiver. A Nuiel Wateii One of (lie ii.0.1 lutfeulous and eipeu •itw itutelties of il»u day ra a vjou iuei*l wslit'i, keyiwM, and tkuttiiy upon iia (*•■«, iliimum'i mu4II s|wrtotM, the lay, 4et< Wnlllti *i»'l Slal .if ll;u |(ii, , u | lta •tilth lejllOc* only to In *11444, | Ist iha usual way, uri aluu the Isuor of twelve uOuub, Msidembt, airitm, «uh a elkk tite -lay and date tits it#* m a MMtfU. »UlH««4lt New ivik luwieai,
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