SULLIVAN JSLFE REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Illinois farmers arc emigrating to northern lowa and southern Minnesota. The discovery is made that the Alaska soil and climate are peculiarly adopted to hop-raising. The Swiss have done the least fighting this century, and their only important outbreaks have been more of a civil than a military character. In tho event of war Russia could show an army of 1,800,003 men, besides Cossacks; France, on a war footing, an army of 2,800,000; Germany, an army of 2,301,000 under twelve years' ser vice. Ross Winans,the Maryland millionaire, whoso deer forests in Scotland alrcndy extend from sea to sea, has just bought more property there. The British press complains about tho "land grabbing" propensities of Americans. It is believed that fully twenty-five per cent.of tho population o;" tho Argen tine Republic at tho present time con sists of Etiropeau settlers, most of whom —now that the undesirable ones have been compelled to leave—are well es tablished and have all their iuterests identical with the country. A military map has been published in Vienna, Austria, showing tho rolative strength of Russia and England and Asia. Russia is represented ns having 200,000 infantry and 38,000 cavalry with which to threaten northern India. To this force England is able to oppose, at most, 100,003 infantry and V\ 000 cavalry. The prospects of the Chinese tea trade continue to grow more gloomy, says London Figaro. At a general meeting of teamen recently held in one of the Foochow districts, it was stutcd that during the last five years, the hundred and eighty houses engaged in the busi ness lost over $2,000,000. More than half of these decided not togo on risk ing their capifat, and are therefore re tiring. It is believed that the foreign merchants will benefit by the reduced competition. Mr. Itiis, author of "Ilo.?the Other Half Lives," in Scribner's Magazine as serts that the lack of small parks and playgrounds in the tenement-house dis trict of New York, and the consequent perpetual tussles between tho children, at harmless play iu the street, and the police, are the chief forces in the devel opment of the "tough." Tho germ ol the gangs, he says, that terrorize whole sections of the city at intervals, and feed our courts and jails, may, without much difficulty, be discovered in these early and rather grotesque struggles of the boys with the police. It seems that sculptors of the rank of Atinc Whitney aud Harriet Hosmcr de cline to show their works in the Woman Building of the World's Fair, but will exhibit in the Liberal Arts Building. Their idea is, of course, explains tho New Tork Sun, that there is no sex in art, and that competition iu their profession has not been with woman, but as mem bers of the commonwealth of urt—past and present. This view of the subject is one that the women commissioners wil have some trouble to counteract in order to preserve the women'*department from takiugon the aspect of au colossal county fair. One of the features of that World's Fair ut Chicago wilt be a Religious Con gress iu which not only alt branches ol the Christian Church arc to come to gether—Catholics from everywhere, Protestunts of all deuouiiiiutious, Holy Orthodox Gieeks from Constantinople and Alexandria and Moscow, Copts and Armeniuus aud members of the other Oriental churches—but also Jewish rabbis, representatives of Bu Idliism from India nnd Japan, Confucian teachers from Chiua, ami Mohammedan doctors from Cairo. According t > the l("view of Mwviews, the C ingress is to seek for the things that are common in the faith aud philosophy of u ti the great cults of the civilised world, and to promote hat* Utouy aud good understanding. One of the curiosities o Preuch legis lation was brought to public until u by a recent incident in the HivUra. Au Kug< Itahutan, who rented a cottage tier* on the seashore, directed his su-rvaut the ollter day lo bring bun a pailful! oi two of sea water for his bath. The ictvaul informed bim that it was against ibe law, and if doue without the special per mis si on nl the civil authorities would sub ;«et bim to various pains aud penalties, lie investigated the mslter, and found tbat Ibe pemtlssinu was uo| easy tu ol - tain, and was only granted ou bis making sIH Isul I hat the water waa Id be used •or no eulinarj put (totes, su I was not lo be boiled down for Ibe sail. Nobody t*u be* Milt in Plato e, even Itum Ut« as, without psj * M e 'b'= dosemmeet lot Hi COLUMBUS. Columbus wap, they tell us now, A man of flaw and fleck— A man who steered a pirate prow, And trod a slaver's deck; In narrow, bigot blindness curled, Cruel and vain was he— To such was given to lift a world From out the darkened sea. Though weak and cruel, vain, untrue, From all earth's high and low, God picked this man, Hfs work to do, Four hundred years ago. There in the distance standeth he, Bound on his mighty quest, This rough old Admiral of tho Sea, Still pointing toward the West, There stands he on his westward prow, A man entirely strong; So great, the bald truth spoken now Can never do him wrong; Though slaver, pirate, he might be, He bad that gift of fate— That wise and sane insanity That makes the great man great. —Sam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. AT SKELETON GRANBE. BY HELEN FORKEST GRAVES. tHE driver stood at the door of the coach,a leather mem orandum book in one hand, a stumpy lead pencil in the other. ' 'Lady for Tow lins's Corners," he had checked off my camphor- scented neighbor in the coach. "Gent for the Abbey Arms —little boy to be left at Doctor Stokum'g school—and you, miss" (with a nod at me), "for Skeleton Grange?" •'Skeleton Grauge!" I cried, with a start that knocked the camphor bottU from the hand of my i-eighbor and seri ously incommoded the fat gentleman in the opposite corner. "Lor", miss," said the man, a slow inilo overspreading his countenance, "it ain't the real name of the place. It's what the folks hereabouts calls it. Short, miss, for Skcllington. It was built by old Squire Skcllington, iu the year 1800." "Oh!" said I, sinking back into my seat with a little nervous laugh, while every one else regarded me with frozen stares of disapproval, including the lady who was sopping the split camphor from her lap with a pocket-handkercnief, and the old gentleman whose wig had been knocked on one side by my sudden movement. For, you see, I was olveighteen, nnd I was going to my first situation, as reader and coinpauiou to Mrs. Pinkney, of The Grange, near Port Kent, on Lake Champlain. It was necessary for some of us to earn our own bread, as my mother's little school had not proved a success, aud both Elaine and Emily were youuger and more timid than I was. The preliminary arrangements had all been transacted through a mutual ac commodation bureau in New York. I had been given to understand by the lady in charge that my position would be very desirable, if I could be sufficiently fortunate to suit the fancy of Mrs. Pink ney, who was an elderly lady of excel lent means and some eccentricity. Well, here I was at last, en route for The Grange, ray railway novel read to the last page, the contents of my lunch basket all eaten, aud a crimson sunset flooding the beautiful surface of Lake Champlain with the loveliest of glows, and just as I was admiring the red-tiled roots of a long, low house, embowered in elms and beeches, the stage came to a, stop, aud tlie driver bawled out: "Passengers for Skeleton Gra-a-ange!" My insignificant little trunk was lifted dowu, a bell in tho stone gate-post was violently rung, aud I stood knee-deep in tall, flowering granges, looking forlornly after the disappearing couch, as the eyes of a shipwrecked muriuer might follow the vanishing masts of some retreating vessel which bcuri heart aud hope away with it. "Is this The Grunge? Is Mrs. Pink ney at home? I aui Miss Carrick, the coinpauiou, from New York, please I" I faltered out the words in a sort of terror, induced by the sudden aud start ling appeurance of a little old woman, iu :t black silk quilted hood and cloak,who had hobbled out of the house by the aid of a knotted stick and unlocked the gate with a shiuiug bra** key. Hhe nodded her head to uiy iuterrogu tories and favored me with a long stare iu answer to my last statement. Tbeu, stoopiug to lift one end of uiy trunk, she said, briskly "Can ee lift t'other cud eeialf? Ke ain't no menfolk about place an' 1 aiu't overly stroug uu-self," 1 obeyed with alacrity, being ycuug and vigorous, aud the truuk not especi ally heavy, and thus I made my appear ance before a tall, s|wr* woman of silly, with a dress of lustreless black silk, glit tering gold eyeglasses, aud a flue Roman profile, who stool ou au fcUslcru rug before a biasing w>mh! lire. The wail* wen; covered with old su ceslrat portraits, whose steady stare added to uiy confusion, every nook and roiuer was cloaded lull of Chinese dla gous, Cl|ip|>eudale cabinets, old chiua ou hrui kels, and grotesquely embroidered screens, "Ab," said the Istll lady, "you are the reader aud toMipauioiit" I utstle a quaint 111 tie courtesy, un const tuusly infected by the pro Utility of the siilK riiipptndale fwnilnre aud the family portraits. "Mis* tan it n, madam," I said "a! your service " l.ooktug back upon the »in umstsuccs by tlte dispassionate light of the past, It 'nesuits to two 11. at this was Ibe longest evening I eV«t spent. Although the trellis uMlstih was coveted with June the wails ul I iitaugi *< is su Utitk, 4nd ihi aim opiM.it so damp, thai we sim kltNNt lo the ire, and lissk hoi tea Mfi ate lonsUl tnuillus to fceeg oim LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1892. selves warm, while Mrs. Pinkney related to me in sepulchral whispers the history of her grandfather, Squire Skeltington, whithom of Wales, who had built this venerable mansion, apparently without the slightest reference to the modern fads of drainage and ventilation. "He was a man of unusually strong mind," said Mrs. Pinkney, "and to show his scorn of popular opinion he built the house on the site of a former graveyard, which partly accounts for the way people have of calling it 'Skeleton Orange,' instead of using the proper ap pellation. I hope, Miss Carrick," with a sudden pause in the stream of words, "that you arc not superstitious?" "Oh, not at all!" said I, with chatter ing teeth and ashy-white face. Old Hannah had brought her knitting in, after the tea things were removed, and sat at a respectful distance. If ee missus likes to live over dead an'-gone folks, I don't," said Hannah, i "'l'd ruther have live neighbors than dead uns any time." ' 'You old goose," said Mrs. Pinkney, with a superior smile. "All the bodies were taken away years before my grand father built the house, and re-interred , bnside Saint Sulpicius's Church, three miles down the lake." ••Maybe ce were, maybe ee weren't," said Hannah. "Which room is ee young inees to have?" "I told you before—the south cham ber." '•ls it near yours?" I whispered to Hannah, as my new mistress loaned for ward to replace a vividly-painted fan on the mantle. "Thank Goodness I" as she ' answered me with a nod. The rest of the evening was spent in readings from various authors and iu various styles to prove to Mrs. Pinkney what my qualifications were, and she was pleased to profess herself surprised and gratified. "To morrow," she said, "I will show you my books and curios, and your duties will commence." At eleven o'clock precisely some hot lemonade mid crackers were produced, and wu went to bed, Hannah guiding me with a candle in an old-fashioned silver scouce. "Hannah!" I cried, clutching her arm as I look at the dim old chamber with its carved high-post bedstead, its polished wood floor and the dim sheets of mirror that seetued to glistou everywhere, "where is your room?" "Just ee first one as ee came doon the stair, miss," said Hannah, "with ce little roond door. Don't ee fret, denr; ee'll sleep rare and well, sec if ee don't." And wishing me good-uight, she with drew. I sat crouched on a chair in front of the antique toilet table, looking pileouslv at my own white face and the reflection of the glimmering candle. All of a sudden 1 became uuplcasantly aware that a dim, opaque sort of face was peering over mv shoulder. I looked around with a spasmodic start. It was only the reproduction of a feeblo old family portrait that hung above tho mantle; but I sprang on a c'jair and resolutely turned its simmeriug face to the wall. As I jumped down again my eyes fell oil something that turned tho warm cur rents of my blood to ice—a pair of big cowhide boots, stained with red mini anil literally set with nails in the heel, that were protruding from urder the chintz valances of the lied. One glance was enough. I opened the door and fled wildlv out iuto the hall without waiting for my candle. At the foot of the winding stairs I looked arouud for the little round-topped door of which Hatiuah had spoken; but there was no door there, a circumstance which was after.vard accouutcd for by the fact that I had turned the wrong way iu my mad flight, and taKcn the south stairway instead of the north. With a smothered shriek I made for the apartment where we had spout the evening, whose open door revealed the remains of the still suioldcriug lire ou the hearth. To my unspeakable terror, I was confronted on the very threshold by the crouching figure of a Bengal tiger, whose green, glassy eye* mirrored the unlcaping flauius, and starting back, with a wild shriek, I lost all consciousness. ine Imck home I Take mo to mother and Emily!" was my piteous murmur, a* 1 once more regained con sciousness and became aware that Mrs. Pinkney was drenching my forehead iu laveuder water, while old Hannah stood by with a sheaf of burnt feathers and a pitcher of iced water. "Don't ee be scared, my deary," said the old woman, soothingly. "Mow don't ee t" "Hannah, hold your tonguet" said Mrs. I'inkuey. "The trouble is purely itervoui, and nerves can, ami must, and shall 1* controlled 1 Now, Miss Car riuk, brace yourself up aud tell us what frightened you." "A mailt" I gasped. "Hiding—with big, nolt nailed boots—uuder my oe it" "Oo.it I" sud Mrs. Pmkney. "Is that all? Why, 1 thought I'd told you about 'out. 1 keep 'em in every room of the house,to make burglars think there's men ou the premises. I told Hannah to remove tbeiu from your chamber, though." "As true as ee lives, ma'am," croaked II uuiiah, "ee clean forgot ail about it)'' "Au>l the tiger I lie spuing at my throat,'' 1 subbed, Ut ling my face iu the tx.de lolhes. "So, he didn't!" said Mrs. I'iukuey. "Ilu# could lie's only slutted, poor eiealuie? I put hiiu Ilium every uight siuce Dou, lite watch dog, was Itoisoned, to slailie atty thieves who may luakt their way in. tioodueas me I we poof, solitary womankind ate driven to all sorts of contrivances Iu protect ourselves, in a louely place like litis." Han- M*ftt "Why didn't you tell we this,'' I tie "Hitti ee >lear heart," said tlaituah, ' nisei once thought o'l* 1 "tint don't Itel, south**! Mis |*iuk» ui) •• We Won't need the eld buuU ml my giandlathei s stotfed Ifcjsi af'ei to-day. My nepbow, Colonel Halkett, and his man, Giles, are coming this evening to stay six months, and they'll bring a new gardener, and two St. Ber nard puppies. Then you shall see 1 For Giles makes a crack butler, and my nephew is a great geologist, and can tell you the Latin name of every bug and bee tle he sees." And on this encouraging showing I re mained at Skeleton Grange after all. Yes, I ought to have married the colonel. But how could I? He was farty, and wore a wig. More over he was a greater old granny than both Mrs. Pinkney and Hannah put to gether. But he was a sanitarian as well as a scientist, and in less than a month he had The Grange properly drained and remodeled so that the sunshine streamed into every room, and summer fires were no longer necessary. And Mrs. Pinkney, although extreme ly eccontric, proved the finest and most considerate of patronesses, and I found myself able to send raonoy home to mother and the girls every month. And I'm not afraid of the Bengal tiger any more, although he still glares at me whenever I go up and down stairs. And I only laugh when people ask me if I'm not ufrutd to live at Skeleton Grange.—Saturday Night. Songs and Their Writers. "The composition of a really populai song, one that catches the fancy of the classes and masses, is a feat that is gov erned more by luck than knowledge," recently remarked a well-known music publisher. "From a literary point of view the majority of successes in this line are atrocious, while their sentiment—if they ure of the sentimental order—is gener ally inclined to be both insipid and mawkish. "A well.written piece of verse, con veying an unconventional sentimental idea, would have about one chance in a thousand to succeed. The quality of the entire composition must be moder ately bad,viewed from a high-class stand point, but exactly how bad only the fates can decide. "In comic songs that catch on original ideas arc absolutely necessary, though any humorous ballad in which the char acters arc knocked down and dragged out with great frequency appeals strongly to the popular fancy. " 'Down Went McGinty' and 'Throw Him Down, McCloskey' are beautiful ex amples of this type. "Souio song writers make a great deal of money from their compositions. Tho author of 'ln the Gloaming' raked in about $15,000 from it, but the greater number do not realize much from their work. "But it is like gambling in away, and tho knowledge that some day they may stumble on a song that will bring them fortune if not fame—for nobody cvei remembers tho author of a popular sonj —keeps them at it. And it's almost n certainty that they'll never be nble to re peat their first success."—Now York Commercial Advertiser. A Ramrod Through tho Brain. An Australian journal gives the follow ing case, wjiicti is nearly as remarkable as the crowbar accident to Mr. Pliineas Gage: "Robert Campbell, a young man connected with the Postal Department, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital with a pistol ramrod through his brain. The story of the accident is that Cam p. bell was out shootiug with a muzzle loading pistol. Whilo he was r.tmming home the charge the weapon exploded, and the ramrod, which was composed of fencing wire, with a lead plug at the end, made by the victim, was sent through his cheek across the eye and came out at the top of his head. Dr. Harris stated that when the man was udmitted to the hospital it was found that the ramrod hud passed through his cheek, ou the left side of the nose, iuto the infraorbital plate of the superior maxilla, right through the eye, going in its course through tho superior orbital plate of the frontal bone, the brain, and coming out at the top of the skull,about the middle of the internal portion of the parietal bone. The wire portiou of tho ramrod was sticking out of the skull about six inches. "Dr. Charles Ryan, assisted by Dr. Harris, trephined tho skull, haviug first cut oil the wire. When the bone was removed tho lea len base came with it, aud the oye, which had been completely destroye t, was taken out. Antiseptio lotion was then syringed through the eyi socket, along the course the ramrod har taken, ami by this means the wouud wat well washed. Campbell is now convales cent."—Medical Record. What Millstones Are Made Of. All the millstouci used iu the Unitec | States formerly came from Krauoe, where | they were made of a silicious IOCK found iu great hjocks near Paris. The stone it mostly quarts, but has a regular cellular structure, is extremely hard anil coiu jiact, and of all shades of color, from ■ whitish gray to a dark blue, A uuiuber of years ago, however, an excellent sub stitute was found iu America, iu the buhr stone of Northwest Peunsylvauia land Moslem o no. Where millstones are employed at all ibis is now ibe favorite rock, ami it auswers the purpose so well I that there is uo need of auy miller going tbioad for liis millstone*. A lashloauble fuel- A fashion tble fuel —tor what la there uowa lays tiial has uol grades of elegance —-is Ibe "spectrum wood" uf the draw* ing room hearth. Fteis la ttreplaca lengths ol ibe limbers ol obi whaling vessels which, sensoue I by many a vujage aud saturated with accumulated drippiugs of wbate oil, orter a beautiful | tilsse as they burn themselves out nil glitieriug andirons As the supply la Is I tome client (nolle I, ami as it aanant be mouufactuie I in a 'lay, but must aMtfue I >sith tlie years, tt is likely to be kept I snfMt len'ly rate to leiain Ita es> lostve, | ml tuuseijuetiily iholcu and feshtuuaote ÜbsreeieriaU*., --Hew Voifc iimat SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pearls from Ceylon will be scarce thiu year. Violent storms have washed away all the oysters from the famous banks, so that the annual fishery must bo aban doned. An attempt has lately b(«n made to cultivate oysters in the Baltic. Last summer 50,000 were transplanted from the North Sea, but the experiment has been a failure. The brain of Schneider, the Austrian assassin, who murdered eight servant girls, was shown by the post mortem ex amination to be affected with hydro cephalus so that nearly all moral sense was gone. The volcano of Kilauea is very active at present. The cavity produced by the last breakdown has not filled up, but there is an active lake two or three hun dred feet below the general level of the floor and a quarter of a mile in diame ter. Doctors maintain that no more favor able medium for tho culture of micro organisms can be found than warm sew age. Cases are cited in which hot water and steam introduced into old cesspools have resulted in an epidemic of diph theria. The installation of the multiple speed and traction system of platform) which has been in operation at the World's Fair grounds in Chicago for the past six months is now assuming a much more complete form that would seeui to be in dicative of success. Dr. B. W. Richardson statea that he has occasionally subjected two animals of the same age, breed and condition sim ultaneously to the same atmosphere of chloroform and common air, and has found one dead and the other alive, and apparently free lrom danger. Mr. Yarrow says that the cause of vi bration in screw vessels when running in smooth water with their propellers well immersed is mainly duo to the forces produced by the unbalanced moving parts of the machinery, such as pistons, piston rods, valves, gear, etc. The famous clock in Strasburg Cathe dral is the only timepiece whith marks the old time in Alsace-Lorraine, now that the whole province has adopted the Greenwich meridian. Experts declare that any attempt to alter the routine of the clock would effectually disarrange the elaborate mechanism. According to Lord Rayleigh, if the heat engines of the futuie are at all an alagous to our present steam eugine9, either the water, as the substance first heated, will be replaced by a fiuid of less icheient volatility, or else the vola tility of the water will bn restrained by the addition to it of some body held iu solution. In regard to the various processes pro posed for the recovery of metallic iron from slag, a writer in Loudon Iron re marks that, though in very many cases the slag as taken from the furnace will be found to ontaiu a large amount of iron in a metallic state; which will well repay for any moderate outlay iu its re covery, an essential point is that all the work be as nearly as possible automatic. A machine often wanted is a small, cheap and efficient water motor for driv ing small dyuamos (or laboratory or trade purposes. Such a motor is now successfully used and consists of a simple arrangement of force buckets propelled under high pressure, house or other water supply. Inside the case is a thin drum of considerable diameter, on the circumference ot which arc small double buckets. The water entering by the supply pipe iiupiuges with force 011 these buckets aud drives the wheel with great rapidity aud power. The Famous "Uuter den Linden.'' It is the widest street of the capital (Berlin). In the middle there is a broad, uupaved,but excellently cared for prom enade, bounded on one side by a riding path, and upon the other by a stone paved road, designed particularly for heavy vehicles that might interrupt traffic. Kudosing this central avenue and the two side ones are four rows of lindens, which have given the street its name. But you mutt uot thiuk of the huge, wonderful lindens of our Northern Germany. The old trees have suffered a gient deal from time and the hostile in fluences of a great city, especially from the gas—always fatal to vegetntiou— aud they are now a very shabby, mean aud melancholy sight. The electric light has here for some years dispotsesse I its rival, aud gleams down lrom tall, lieau fully shaped posts, that are really orna mental. Parallel with the outermost rows of lindens there are two more road ways, asphalt on one side and eicelleutly paved u|»ou the other, aud alto a broad sidewalk ou both sides; so that lh« street haa consequently seven division*— two sidewalks, thiee roads for vehicles, a bruits path aud a proiueuadi' —Hcrib MT. The Cause of Trichiasis. The Secretary of the M itsac'ouietts Hutu Hoard of Health said Ibe othei day, iu resiioute to »u inquiry as to wh;tl that Hoard had to state regarding tht trichina cases, that if people would eat raw pork they would be sick, aud thai since the middle of February there bad I tee 11 upward of Ally cases of Irk-biuusb iu lloslon, with live deaths, a large 1 uuiulier than had ever before IH>«II re |Mirted lo the lluard In tbr past lilt) yeao. Hue teutii of all the pork ar.i lud Hoalou, be said, was alfei ltd Tin only safely lu the use of p»rk was iu lb tbotougb cook Inn . New York 'flutes. 4 liaise ('•* *at 411 Hay. A pruuiiuent borsettiau »ays that • hoise i»U conveniently eat twenty foot hours every d«y, ibe leatou being thai "Its stomach is ie*Hy smell In proportion lo the site uf Ila bvdf, ami, tbeiefoie, It rnpiiies In Ung "It" u nit less tlo It 112 o I not* • d»y, two uf wbUb »h mid be vsi y iu Ibe Hii itilty M4 at ilMbl, while bay itt ll« stall sfeottid be tl«a|t witMu its lea1 acids which were mixed iu copperheads aud rattlesnakes aud from certain deadly plants were u-e I ill cou i coding the baneful fluids. The poisoned | arrows were employed by the Indians lit I killing their enemies iu war aud iu shoot | ing •iaiigertiut wild animals. Few poison pots of this kin I are iu I esisleuce, even iu lite most complete j museum cotlectims uf Indian lelics,— I New York Times. Wonders In Ibe Ki|uine t'uit, The foot of a horse is ouu uf the most | Ingenious and liuestutpled pieces u| mechanism iu tho whole range of autuial i structure. The oulsidi b «»f Is modu up i uf a SO ties ol Iblu, VI rile tl Ivni . > o| born, about iu uumber, Into this us titled about J'W more thin lautiuat, | which lieloitg lo the folNu bone, bolti ! sets being eU.tic and adherent. The I edges uf a quite of pap*i lust rted leaf by leaf into another quire will furnish a ! good idet uf lite «ir«ugeuteut of lbs Utiiiua as itieulimtetl above I'h ts tlte weight of tlte amuttl Is supported by at many •lastn springs as thireaie taminai These are ilislfibultal in Ibe isal seeute minuet and In a way thai every spimg | la acted U| "it iu on ■•Ultqu* dilution. ! Vtlily thefc is a display ui nature's I wuidei eVsti wbfMe. IM, I. *me tie NO. 35. LIFE AND LOVE. Life's a fabric of fancier, whims, dream*, silhouette.. Interwoven with pleasures and pange— smiles and sighs! Love is simply a tissue of tears and regret., Loet delights, bitter blise, broken hearts, weeping eyes! Yet, withal, there are passions conceived and confees'd. Come what may throughout life, whose sweet fragrance may cling- Like the breath of a rose that is kissed and caressM — Around hearts, tho' Fate crude disillusions may bring. Nor does love dream that Deetiuv oft holds in store Certain bitterness, cleverly hidden from view; Even so, I still worship, still fondly adore*. You—my life and my love—aud I am ioyal to you. —E. H. Carroll, in Detroit Free Press. IIUMOR OF THE DAY. 4 The man who dyes his hair has learned the secret of keeping things dark. "Laugh and the world laughs with you," or wants to know what you are grinning at. An athletic record is the only thing that improves by breaking.—Bingham ton Republican. Don't talk about youreelf in company —it can be done much more satisfactorily after you have left. Life may be a stage, but is more like a courthouse from the fact that it is full of trials.—Elmira Gazette. Philanthropy now demands the culture of a species of shad that shall be bone less.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A man who sells clocks cannot l»j blamed for being occasionally behind the litres.—Washington Star. "That's an angel of a house!" said she. "Not quite," he replied. "It only has ouc wing."—Harper's Bazar. BriggSr— "Do you think that Robinson loves her?" Griggs—"He went shop ping with her."—Cloak Review. "I guess that must be a watch-dog," remarked Tommy, "for his tail begins to tick whenever you speak to him."— Judge. A petrified bam has been found in au Indiana field. This is the first supply of material for World's Fair sandwiches.— Oil City Dsrrick. Manager—"l'll eugage you for a trial season." Actor—"Before I accept I'll ask you for a trial advance of salary."— Fliegende Blaetter. "Oh, yes, ours is n hard business," said the dressmaker. "It's snip and tuck with us all the you know."— Harvard Lampoon. It is curious how much faster a itrcet car bumps along when you arc running after it than wheu you are riding on it. —Richmond Recorder. A Bath truckman, who owns two horse?, has named one McGiuty and the other Annie Rooney, both being chest nuts.—New York Bun. A girl of sizteeu walks as if she owned the earth, and after she has been mar tied a few years she walks as if she weie carrying it on her shoulders.—Atchisou Globe. "So that young heiress has promise ! to marry you?" "Yes, in three year*." "Is'ut that a while to wait?" "It may be, but she's wotth her wait ia gold."—Washington Star. Tiie old, old story before marriage has three words in it:"I love you." The old, .old story after marriage has the same number, to wit: "Wanted—a cook."—New York Mercury. Wife—"Here's something new and nice—an advertisement of 'a folding baby-carriage'." Husband (absently)— "That is a novelty. But I never saw a folding baby."—l'ittsburg Bulletin. Prudent Mother—"l trust, my dear, that you do not encourage young men in their attentions," Daughter—"Oil,dear me; no. 1 threaten to tell you every time any ouu of them kisses we."—New York Suu. Mrs. Paucake (wearily)—"lt's as true as gospel—womau's work is never done." Mr. Bkye Parlor—"Ahem! Judging from the beefsteak, ma'am, I should say that it is sometimes too much done."— Harper's Bazar. "I observe, James," taid the Bolton employer, "that you say vether" and •ueether'. Are you uot aware that such is not our pronunciation of those words!" "It doesn't seeui to me," replied the boy from New York, de*|>»adently, "that you ought to i-tpect lue to iav 'eyether* aud *uyther' on a salary of sixteen dol lars a month."—Chicago Tribune. truestar—"l>o you rail Dr. Ranter a man who, as a preacher, ia nuiuunlly tilted to his eallio;?" Jester—"Well,aa to that, he reveals elementsof tltue«s .tod uutituese." tjuester—"Please esplaiu your lueauiug" Jester—"Why, as a pulpit orator he is a failure; but judging froiu the number of people | observe uo idiug ia hla vhuicb duriug a discourse I should assume him to be a great torn poser."— Boston ('outer. Waggle—"Yet, it's all up with sw aud Miss rtaeetlelgh. NUe got milted about something or other and sent Im k all my letters. Wiggle—" that was I bad." Waggle™"! 1 bought so for j a while, but It was a bl.selug in disguise. I *0 g»t another girl now, and whoa 1 write I |4ti eupy one of sty old letters Ui M's* Iswietteigh. J oat as good as a new •iite, you know, audit te su* h a saving 04 lite btatlH 1 issues."- Huston lieu eeripl- A vleigytiMtt in Mmueapidie was late- I ly talked upou tu oft' iale at a eery faeb< ioitable we