SULLIVAN JHBSI REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. An English paper says that "shortened honeymoons appears to lie in vogue." A writer in Orchard and Garden eay» that "the apples from tho Blue Ridge region from Virginia to Georgia will lead the whole United States m respect to fine quality." Ninty five per cent, of all the money transactions in the associated banks of New York are accomplished by means of checks and drift?, leaving five per cont. of the total Imsiness to be represcutod by coin or paper money. This tot ought to live long and pros per, exclaims Onco A Week. At the age of two ycais Charles Lee Bunion, of Pro vidence, fell into a cistern and floated around in seven feet of water until his grandfather handed him a pole, to which ho "caught on." Perhaps, muses the New York Cora, mercial Advertiser, science will some • lay teach us how to use petroleum in military operations, when wo will have an agency by which our harbors may bo converted into Infernos to consume tho navies of tho world. a ' There are just 1157 millionaires in New York City, according to the Tri bune's final reckoning. The Vander bilts count six, the Goulds four, tho Astors three, the Goelets four, and tho Rliinelanders five,while the omnipresent Smith family lead all tho rest with eight. "The Ilcrinir Sea o!Tcr3 less attractions to Canadian poachers this year than last, 1 ' argues the Sau Francisco Chroni cle. "Very few of them feel inclined to take any risks, so we may safely con clude that the close season undei exist ing arrangements will prove a complete success." A company has been incorporated in Now Jersey for tho manufacture of membrauoid, a fancy leather made from tripe—nothing else than tanned tripe. The patent-office authorities insisted that tripe was tripe, no 'matter through what chemical process it might have been put, and some time elapsed and there was much parleying before a com promise was affected on tho name of the product now called membranold. This new species of leather is said to be pretty and durable. Miss Angelina Brooks, who is a recog« nized authority on all questions of kin dergarten methods, has recently devoted her time to a careful investigation of tho curbstone children in this city, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. She has ascertained that there are 140,000 boys and girls between the ages of four and six who spend their lives in the streets and never onco see the inside of a school. She is trying to enlist sympathy for these unfortunate waifs which will ultimately lead to the establishment for them of free kindergarten school. It is asserte I that after this year tho United States will not only be able to stop importing fruit, but will begin to be a factor in supplying the markets of the world. Tlw estimate is that New 1 ork will have "'',000,000 pounds of fruit from California alone this summer. Fast fruit trains now cross the coutineut in seven days, and < n»ble the growers to harvest a riper product than heretofore. Aiizona and Oregon are coming to the front as frillt states ; Mississippi is getting famous for tomatoes, a id Florida oranges «ud Georgia peaches are always sure of a ready market. The uutlojk has never been so promising. Frank Leslie's Weekly states that Hit Ktiite of Peunsylv uiia shows tho lar'ost percentage of foreign born adult male who lire aliens, the jierceulago that State being 35. 1.1 of tint total number, representing persona. In the State of New \ ork, foreign horn adult males, or sl. 1.1 per pent,, are aliens, an I iu N. v ,ki y, 11,877 or if*.*7 per lent, arc aliens. New York shows the greatest nunberofnaturally, d foreign b >ru ad i't in tie , there b sin j in that State 418,30'!, or 0 1.71 per run*. I of the total nu.ut.ir oft ti -ru adult j Mule* returned. lie city of New York ' show# the largest (wreMtagt of foreign. 1 lion, of ih. total population, the foreign element iu that citf " presentlug Pi ti ' per ten. of the total p .pulatluu a* against 3'.» til p. ri < at. Iu Ih id. Units j lo shows 'ls 'MI |>< r -.'it. of furut n li.ru j Brooklyn show a* PI ptr •••.( , «a it». I «.«♦«. Iron, ,i| ,i ~ , ..I J, . Loug Island t,l 1,,, , ' pi.puletlou ol ;t« |,i i , ,1 ( while iu ! I ►»■» .i I H per iii.i i,| ti,„ j,,| j i population, w*li-< a pu 4 ft* iw * pit 111 lay./ (1.*.. IS »h <*». lit lUe iSiak. 4. , j Whole, while IN li t Muet. «ti I I i «tl« I*4 < Iff * UfUftf |t)( . ,1 A SUMMER'S DAY. Rlack lices on the clover- heads drowsily clinging, Where tall, feathered grasses and butter cups sway; And all through the fields a white sprinklo of daisies Open-eyed at the setting of day. Oh, the heaps of sweet roses, sweet cinna - nion roses. In great crimson thickets that cover the wall! And flocks of bright butterflies giddy to see them, And a sunny blue sky over all. Trailing boughs of the elms drooping over the hedges, Where spiders their glimmering laces have spun; And breezes that bend the light tops of th willows And down through tho meadow grass run. Silver-brown little birds sitting close in tho branches. Anil yellow wings flasniug from hillock to (rec. And wide-wheeling swallow.-* that dip to the marshes. And bobolinks crazy with glee. So crazy, they so;ir through the glow of the sunset And warble their merriest notes as they fly. Nor heed how ths moths hover low in the hollows, And the dew gathers soft in the sky. Then a round beaming moon o'er tho blos somed hill coming, Making paler the fields ami tho shadows more deep; And through the wide msadows a mur murous humming Of Insects too happy to sleep. Enchanto 1 I sit on the hank by the willow And trill the last snatch of a rollicking tune ,■ And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, 1 know in my heart it is June. —Mrs. A. (>. Woolson, in Boston Transcript. LDVIi AMI mix BY HELEN FORIIEST GRAVES. "Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands —" RETTY little I Elma El wood WS&S&M™ leaned both el ' ■ \Vo bows on the win- 1 fyjiM •* nn( ' giused I \ out across the glow i* ing landscape. I 1 ,"> "Are you ready 'ijpt' 112 for breakfast, Miss £ El wood 1" primly demanded Mrs. ® Perkins, the governess, as she monciurcd her nails at the marble wash basin. "No. Come here, Perky," said the audacious girl, "and I'll show you the corner of that picturesque old black smith's shop I told you of-*- the cnc I'm going to sketch this afternoon." "It's past eight, MissElwood, and you know your grandfather attaches great j importance to punctuality," began the ; governess "Right there, over the top of those mountain pines, Perky," composedly continued Elmn, extending her slim j forefinger in a due northerly direction | \ aloug the valley of the river, "you can just see the odd little three-cornered ga ble peeping out through the trees—" "And there's tho bell, now," ex claimed Mrs. Perkins, with a little ner vous stnrt. "And the smith, a mighty man is he." Hummed B>lma, beginning to tie back her | curls with a fillet of blue ribbon. "Hut j not nearly so handsome as that young HJ»- 1 < prentice of his, who fixed the crooked nail in Swallow's shoe, yesterday.l won- ■ | der if 1 could sketch the place.' To be ( sure, I have had only seven lessons, but , j one must try one's wings sometimes, you | kuow."J I | Mrs. Perkins straightened Emma's I sash, gave her curls several twitches this j , way And that, and dragged her into the j , brcnklast-room just in time to avert the , usual morning lecture from old Major ] | Elmwood on the evils of late rising. | Hut that afternoon, in the purple soft ; ncss of twilight, Elnia managed to evade 112 her precise guardian, and slip oil into ( the woods with her sketch-book. H And she was sitting on a moss cush j ioneil rock, working with all her might, i , when Louis |)ul/.cll strode toward the j spring for u pail of water. The sleeves of his ic I flannel blouse were rolled high up on the forearm. He ftill wore his -tained leathern apron, ,| and his short, chestnut curls plainly re j veakd themselves through the riftat in | his tattered straw hat. 11' id he but knowu it, he never had „ looked (tetter in hi* life . yet a deeji flush : „ of murtllh stiou rose to his brow „ •ocounteied the pretty twelvii year old i , dauisel iu white, with the shady, rosi , gitrlauded list, and tliu solt It ititM sash ■ tic I loosely around ber waist. "Ou> d afternoon !"sahl Ktnrii t, calmly. "I'll i-o .tip a little to one side, l>oiiis, , if tbit is your iitine. I'm trying lo | sketch the Smithy." i Itaueli ventured tu glance over I shoulder. , t ••It's beautiful, ' s«id he. "You can „ almost us the wind Musing that isi t I '■ Ve«," »itui» j j Luu4 U'| 1. 1 site hat Mvt Mts i LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1892. young man. Sho rather liked liiin, al though it was awarkward for hiin to mis take the butternut stump for a little dog, and sho made up her mind to say some thing pleasant to him when ho came hack to the spring. Hut he did not come hack at all. Rvi dently there was some other way between the smithy and the little brook. At six o'clock, according to compact, Mrs. Perkins came for the artist to es cort her homo. "And you'vo been all this timo doing that little bit of work?" said Mrs. Per kins. "Oh, I haven't worked all the time, Porky!" impatiently spoke the girl. "Besidos, one can't hurry art." As they strolled slowly down theshady road, Ehua suddenly stooped and picked up something. "What's that?" said tho governess, lifting her crisp flounces out of tho dust. "A horseshoe—an old, common horse shoe. Put that down at once, Miss El woodl" "Wait for a moment, Perky 1" cried tho girl, rushing away through the bushes. "I've forgotten something." Half n minute later, sho was down in front, of the closed smithy, balancing herself ou tho identical butternut-wood slump. With a round stono for a hammer, she drove in a rusty uail, and hung the tliiu old horseshoe over tho door. "There's good luck for Louis Dal zelll" she cried, us she sprang lightly backward. "Take care!" saida voice behind her. And then she became aware that Dal zcll himself had emerged from the bow ery shallow of the trees, and that she had nearly knocked him over. "Is that for me?" lie said. "Oh, thanks 1" And placing both hands lightly on her shoulders, he kissed her, driven by some sudden impulse for which he himself could scarcely account. Elma Elwood turned scarlet all over; she rubbed her cheoks to clfaco all ves tige of the ollensc, and stamped her kid shod foot in the sand with futile passion. "How dare you?" sho cried. "How date you?'' And like a flying nymph she vanished into the dense shadow of the woods, leaving the young mail transllxod with surprise. "Why does she make such a fuss?" he asked himself. "She's ouly a child— but good fate! what a beautiful child!" 110 reached up and took down tho the thin, old horse shoe and put it in his pocket. He and the picturesque, long bearded old blacksmith had quarrelled that ilay, and he meant to leave Wyndalo with the break of the morrow's dawn. "I'll lake my luck with me," ho said to himself. "God bless the child for lliiuniut: of mi: 1 !" »**«** Just a year afterward old Major El wood died, leaving his alluirs hopelessly L'irtangled; and when the lawyers had squabbled long enough over the busi ness, it was formally announced that there was nothing left for tho child to to live on. "What am I to do. Perky?" said Elma, with big, blue eyes ol apprehen sion aud dutiiay. And good Mrs. Perkins, who had suc ■eeded in obtaining a situation as Eng isli teacher in a boarding-school, bar gained to forego a part of her own salary or the sake of having Elma'? education ;o on at Watley Hall. "A teacher's life isn't all roses," said die, "hut I can't bear the idea of hav ng the poor, little dear bound out to a rado or stood up behind a counter. Vnd, really, her voice might be made lomething of." All these things happened yenrs ago, in I Denveras was not the big city tis now win.u Mrs. Perkins ntid her idoptcd daughter decided to ant their ots iu the shadow of the lilack Hills. "Music is overdono in tho Eastern States," said the good ex-governess . 'lint I think wo'll make a try for it lere, Elma, dear. I'm told that if we an interest that rich iron man that lives n tho castellated mansion out beyond 'la/.a Hiver, his lutlucucc can do every hing for us " "Itoully!" Klma's dimple) danced oguishly. "What a very curious sort if a person an—lron man must be! I'm rery curious to see hiiu, Perky, do you inowl" "Nonsense, my dear!" cried Mrs. Per mit. "Vou know what I mean per eutly well. He's made his fortuuu in lie iron business—railways, and that '■it of thing. And I'm going to call there this very afternoon, to bespeak his com mend.'it on* and good uflicM." "Oh, Perky, must I got" "Of course you must go, child I'' Kliua Klmwood sal trembling in the ;ri'al entrance hall of the Moresque illusion, ou the south shore of the Plaza liver. 1 Tho sunshine glimmered on the floor if r i-1 and while marble; giant myrtles ' u l blossoming lemon trues tilled the 1 liglc, uud a low ea<>y-chair ou a tiger- 1 'iiil by the door, was drifted over with r wsp.ipcrs. I'riteutly Mis. IVikius niiih stuiliug back. I "lie will Imi with oe presently," said ' lid. "Heilly, my dear, he's i|uile a ' .si. lit i<>. li e* 11 i euo iii has iiiontfhl m« l«i< w ! « '/, », I sst I I young friend to remain here as my guests for the present. I have a largo house, and I ain a lonely man." "Oh!" said Miss Perkins, her eyes be coming larger than the lenses of her spectacle glasses. "You're not married then'" "No," said Mr. Dalzoll. "Beforo I left tho East, I fell in love. I shall never innrry until I can many that first love of mine." lie looked Elma full in the eyes as he spoke. She colored. Her long lashes drooped. At the end of the mouth Mrs. Per kins aroused herself to the exigencies of the case. "All this is like life in fairyland, dear Rlma," said she. "But it isn't business. 1 see by the papers that several music teachers have recently arrived from the East, and if we are to get to work—" "But," said Elma, patting the dear old wrinkled hand, "I don't really seo any particular reason for our gettiug to work." "Eht" gasped Mrs. Perkins. "You see," wont on Elma, "Mr. Dal zell is engaged to that first love of his. Ho has given me back the horseshoe,and as I couldn't think of breaking tho cur rent of luck by taking it from the house, of course I must stav hero." "Oh I" said Mrs. Perking. "Then it's true? Ho's the saiue young man that kissed you when you were hauginggood luck up over the smithy door—the 'un der the spreading chestnut tree young man'? " Elma nodded assent. "Oh!" again uttered Mrs. Perkins. "But you said you never, never would forgive him." "Don't you know, Porky," coaxed Elma, the audacious, "what the Bible says about forgiving people? Anyhow, it's all settled, aud we are to be marriod very stjon, and you are to live here with us always. Does that plan suit you?" And Mrs. Perkins said that it did. How Chinese Catch Shrimp. "There are some very curious fisheries carried on by the Chinese on the Pacific coast," said an oflicer of tho United States Fish Commission in Washington recently. "One of the most lemarkable is the catching of shrimp, which is au important industry in San Francisco Bay and adjacent waters. These little crus taceans upon being captured are taken ashore and boiled in big iron vats, aftei a rude fashion, holes being scooped out of the side of a steep bank for fire places, which are built up with stones. After the shrimp have remained in boil ing water for ton minutes they are spread out to dry upon bare ground. One such shrimp yard at Hunter's Point is about fifteen acres iu extent. The Chinese usu brooms, shaped u-what liko hoes, for spreading the shrimp nnd to turn them at the required intervals. "After being thoroughly dried by ex posure to the sun for about five days tho shrimp are crushed by being trodden upon by Chinese in wooden shoes. This process loosens the meat from the shells, which latter are removed by shaking iu a basket or by passing them through a etude fanning mill. Both meat and shells are then packed in sacks for exportation to China, where tho meats are sold for food and tho shells disposed of as a fer tilizer for tea plants,rico and so forth. All classes of people in China eat tho meats, although regarding them as inferior to the native shrimp, which are compara tively scarce and proportionately dearer. Both meats anil shells are fed to fowls, with remarkable egg producing results. "Another interesting fishery prose cuted by the Chinese on the Pacific Coast is for abalones. These beautiful uni valve inollusks are found aloug the rocky snores at low tide, clinging tj tho rocks above the water line. ICach shell is slightly lilted, so that the fisherman can thrust a stick under it and pry it off; but, if alarmed, the anitnal shuts down its valve, so that it can only bo removed | by breaking it to pieces. The meats aro taken from the shells nnd boiled on . shore in vats made of sheet iron. Shells j and meits are then packed in sacks and , forwarded to Sail Francisco, whence I molt "112 thi> meats are exported to China, j and the shells shipped to France, tho j latter lieiug highly valued for their beau- j tiftil mother-of-pearl."—Baltimore Aiuer- , lean. A Dust Detector. Some curious color phenomena have beeu observed by John Aitkin when air is (tiddenly expanded, and have led to the construction of a new inatruinent called tho ''kdiiiicope," for roughly {lats end*. The nr to bo tested it drawn into the tube, wli ie it it inoietriicd mid expanded. If coiuparitively few dost particlet are present, sity 80,000 cubic centimeter,the color it very laini, but a blue of Increai 1114 depth oc -urt us the p trticle* increato Hi nuuiber, iK'comlnif a very dark blue with 4,000,000 per cubic centimeter. I lie kouitt ope liiakea It eatj to trace the pollution aritliii; in our home* from open Haines an I other cutset, „ud in tep.ti itu pure from impure current* in thu room*. I'rentou (N J.) American. Ilnth Hoy and lub Walleil Hue of Mr I, iinptou'a boya rami: near having • letioue encounter with a heat the other day. While going to work he ou ta I tr.:«• iiear an I two cub*. The mother and one of the cubt took to the woodt while the other cub climbed a small tret I'hn tioy thoiiifhi to capture the t tib, atitl climbed up after it, where upon the ■ ub *et up well a wail that the mother ioon IHIUIIUHI and *tari» I up aftti tin buy. It wa* now hi* turn io »» nl, a inch lie did jutte lustily, i taring to lite »nalliMist of the tree, thu liear could no| 1, 4 ii the hoy t but (he situs tlou aat anything but pleasant during the Internal that clajtttd lieluit Ihe si rival of lite boy * lather Ihe »ht iiear (uu| to the woudt. I hey tut t betle-l in the coo I#i ntt siMi t«| tips.* and ku«.t) kt, aud t *a it lt»fiMw l.^uisi t it| | A tllHttHittti Hit WASHING BY MACIIINEItY. WORK IN THB BIOCJEST LAUNDRY IN THIS COUNTRY. Quick Work With an Ocean tuner's Wash—Steam Power ITseit Alto gether— I'ny ot Employe." PID you ever sec a big laundry in full blast? It is worth seeing. When the News reporter visited this Hudson Uiver fac tory, the washing from one of the great Tnman liners had just come in. It was the washing for a whola week—the washing for 2000 persons. There was bedding, linen, napkins, towels and some few articles belonging to the ward robe of some of the officers. The rest of the wash belonged to the ship. It rolled up to the door in two wagons, and it rolled out on the floor of tho sorting-room and spread out like a dirty suow storm in a high wind. The work ol sorting this wash took just twenty minutes, aud four young women, with bright brown eyes and bright red arms. After it was sorted, the big pieces going with the big pieces, and the little pieces staying with them selves, it was taken to the washing machines. Once there were wash-tubs. There are wash-tubs now, but they are simply amateur appliances. The pro fessional wash shop employs washing machines, otherwise called "washers." These contrivances are from five to eight feet long, anil are shaped like the boiler ■if a locomotive. They are made of metal and they revolve on their aites, like the cylinders in lawn mowers. They are connected with the shaft by puileys, ami when the clothes are putin, the door closed and the water let in by a pipe, the crank is moved, and then they begin to revolve with a mighty swishing and slashing in their insides. After a few minutes of this, which is called the soaking, the water is let oil and hot water is turned on. With hot water soap is brought in and the crank is turned again. This timo it is for keeps, and when the washer stops the clothes are clean. This is the sort of washing that requires no starching, so it goes direct to the wringer. This is tho kind of a wringer that the originallaun dryman knew naught of. The wringer up to date is a round box sot upon four round legs, made of gas pipe and hollow. Tho interior of this box revolves several hundred times a minute. This turning interior holds the wet clothes, and from it dry rf.othcs are turned out. They are not entirely dry, but they are dry enough togo to the ironing room. The revolutions of the interior are so swift that the water is thrown off in showers. The ironing is pi|«d tith iron rollers, set in frames, so that*one roller rolls against another, like tho rubber rollers in an old-fashioned wringer. One or both of these rollers is hollow, and is heated by either gas or steam, and the sheets and pillow-cases, napkius, towels and table cloths pass between these rollers and come out steaming hot, smooth as glass, and white. For some kinds of iauudry work a dry room is required. Now this dry room bears about as much relation to the drying-room in the ordinary house as a French bounot does to a bread bowl. It is a small affair, heated red hot by steam pipes. For starched goods this is used, and does its work in a hurry. The laundry that the reporter visited does not make a practice of doing family work, although it has facilities for do ing any kind of work. It devotes its time chiefly to hotel, club and steamboat work. It can turn out 100,000 pieces a ilny, aud the average price for 100 is from thirty-five to sixty cents. These figures are for unstarched work, ami they are very low. It requires 140 per sous to do the work. The washing is done wholly by men, who get sl2 a week each. The lest of the work is done by girls and women, who aie su pervised by four forewomen, who get sl?' a week and their board. The workwoman get Ir.nn sixty cents tu £1 a day, the folders in the ironing room commanding the highest wages.— New York News. A Ureal Tree For the Fair. The tree selected by tho Tultte Board of 'I ritde fur exhibition lit tlio World'* Pair siAnds on the land of Mr*. M. ('. K Hlitiey, one-half mil* (outbea-'t of Htitnmerhoine, on the summit between Nortli and Middle Tule, about thirty-five ■nils* northfitit of I'ortcrville. The tree *«< (elected at the rei|uwt of the National World'i Fair Asaoci diou. Mrs, Kliuer dooalM the tree at a «ift. It it (aid to be it mugniScent specin en of *{M|iloia toino .'IOO feet in height. At the have it in ?ti} feet in Circumference, and eleven feel from the ({round it it ♦».'! feel in circumference. This tfivet a l>a«e diameter of 21 feet. The tectlon that will be removed tor ex hibition will be a portion thirty feet loll);. Thin piece will be cut into two fifteen foot aril ion*, with a natural (lab l>< Iwi en tlx in. Title circular piece will be I i feet in diameler and Irt lnche« tbit k. It will serve aa a rout for thu lower lection when hollo* r I and a Moor lot the upper one. Vualia (Cal.) 'I IUU". If underfill Work of H*et. Meet mutt, In order to collect a pound of clovei honey, deprive 69,000 t lot to bloMuwi of t'teii nectar. To do thi* th< W.UWi llnwere mull lie vidte l by an UK. legate of 3,7 ft beat Or, iu other wiir It, to collect hit |m>UU<' of homy one lire uiuet uiake 3,7ft0,tM10 nipt Horn slid to the hive, I et un bit'ut amount of auik here iavolvedpo t11»"let idea imputation ol kti(| 'li "! I'd.! M I. ut> Its^uOuv. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Bad salt meat is said to have caused cholera on n British vessel. It is rumored that I)r. Pasteur has dis covered a cure for epilepsy. Parts of a mastodon have been un earthed near Sherman, Texas. If cork is sunk 200 feet deep iu the ocean it will not rise again on account of the great pressure of the water. Experienced plauters in the South now raise tho male cotton plant, being thus enabled to secure the seed without the lint or cotton. Three broad patents on electric loco motives and electric railway systems, ap plication for which have been filed since June 3, 188(1, have just been issued to Thomas A. Edison. The General Manager of the Wiscon sin Central Railroad is reported to have said that all the trains on that line will be run by electricity before tho Colum bian Exposition is over. The greatest enemy of suburban tele phone and telegraph poles is the wood pecker, whose search for the uumerous insects which inhabit tho wood ofteu leaves the pole literally honeycombed. A medical officer of the French army is credited with a remarkable simple cure for obesity. His plan is to restrict the diet to one dish—it does not greatly matter what—at each meal, ami it lias proven very effective. The part of the larynx commonly known as Adam's apple has just been re moved from the throat of a man at the Carney Hospital in Boston, Mass., the first operation of the kind in that city. A eauccrous growth had started iu tho affected part. Tho electrical apparatus for extracting teeth without pain has an arrangement of adjustable prongs, carrying buttons and connected with a battery. Tho buttons are placed over the nerves lead ing Irom the teeth to tho brain, aud a circuit is established the moment the ex tracting instrument touches the tooth. Trials of compound artnor plate at Shoeburyness, England, arc held to have demonstrated that, when these platos have been submitted to the Tresidden supplemental process, they possess pow ers of resistance and endurance much ex ceeding the compound plates tried in this country in competition with nicklo plate. The longest span of telephone wire in tho world is said to cross the Ohio River between Portsmouth, Ohio, and South Portsmouth, Ky. Tho wires span tho river from a pole on the Ohio side, meas uring 102 feet above ground, to the Kentucky hills on the opnosite side, the distance being 3773 feet between poles. The wire is made o f steel and its siae is No. 12 gauge. A Most Wonderful frenfuro. The chameleon has for ages been an ob ject of curiosity, not only on account of its ability to change its color at will, as one might suppose who had read ac counts which mentioned only that ono characteristic, but also on account of a remarkable power which admits of tho creature instantly changing its form. At times it takes upon itself almost the ex act form of a mouse; again, with back curved and tail erect, it is the exact counterpart of a miniature crouching lion, which no doubt gave origin to its name, charael-lcon, which clearly means "ground lion." By inflating its sides and flattening back and bcliy it takes upon itself the form of an ovate leaf, the tail acting as the petiole, the white line over the stomach becoming the mid rib. When thus expanded it also has the extraordinary power to sway itself over so as to present an edge to tho ob server, thus greatly nddlng to its means of concealment. As is well known, the least excitement, as in handling, will cattle a change in the color. In its nor mal state it is of n light pea green. When excited the groundwork remains the same, but transverse stripes about thirty in number appear oil tho body. These stripes, which aro of a very dark green to begin with, soon change to inky blackness. The prevailing idea that the chameleon takes upon himself the pe culiar hues of whatever he is placed upon is as curious and widespread as it is er rotieous. Placed in boxes lined with red or blue silk, they retain their pea grueu color with no leaning toward the brighter hues of the surroundings. St. L mi* lb-public. The Trade in old Shoes. There is a large mid ; rn.viug den.an 1 in big New Vork for *cuidhand shoes. All along Scventu m mini there are i the big, stiff liroj; ins of the litb .ri'i. "We get our old shoes," .aid one of them, yesterday,"from all sorts of places. I usu illy make a r Minis of trips a »ieek myself to a bit of stylish flats in the tipp. r part of the city. I c dlect all the old sle s lam able to buy Wilit dill givef Oil, verv little, of couna. I usually pay forty cents or so for a pair uf five dnllai sinus, bit they must b- la good shape tu ain siu h a prit», for, lw| know, we do not get much Mora t in twice that sum when >u letail them a„'aiu u»ei the counter. " "Who sell shoes to youl" "You wouUl be surprised if you ..aw the line, »%»• *! fellows tint bin- to put up their stuies net .t*iou illy to help kuc,i till appealtucsM. We take tho -.hoes', 111 ok litem up, rspaii teem, au I then olfur them fur wilt " "Wiui lio/s litem!" •• VII Ym, we bat# *•»<«, pi***i.c i.itis people wiui went it* ml Hmd • hoes, aad think uf it funM Iheie is a i ia»s of }>*uug ledi.ws In N w Voik alu bs». .*(«.. ive tastes aw I io.»U ispitai. Ih«jr t-i Mu 11 us, u , out a |(uikl looking usirnit Itslitm all mi. p , a «.m, ti». tint* off m fin A, sill " asaj tmjuuttrni tUof tfu bun*, pit • 1 '' i ■* •.t u» '« j dm I ll«t I**4 It Hvt/t 4*4, NO. 42. O TIME AND CHANGE. O Time and Change, they range and range From sunshine round to thunder I They glance and go as the great winds blow, And the best of our dreams drive under: For Time and Change estrange, estrange— And, now they have looked and seen us, O we that were dear we are all too near With the thick of the world between us. O Death ami Time, they chime and chimo Like bells at sunset falling! They end the song, they right the wrong, They set the old echoej calling: For Death and Tline bring on the priuio Of God's own chosen weather. And we lie in the peace of the Great Release As once In the grass together. W. E. Henley. HUMOR OP THF DAY. Not enough togo arouud—A semi circle.—Life. You cannot lmtch ideas by sitting on goose eggs.—Dallas News. A baseball maxim—A run in time saves a nine.—Boston Transcript. If poor relatives had their way they -would not have rich uncles very long.— Dallas News. Young man, no one may be able fo tell your fortune, but you can work it out for yourself.—Troy Press. You can't tell how much money a man has in his pockotbook by the size of the 6trap around it. liim's Horn. Wntts—"Did your barber shut up on Sunday?" Potts—"No. Ho merely closed the shop."—lndianapolis Journal. The summer girl asks the same «|ties tions at baseball games this season us she did last year.—Boston Transcript. The dog that loses his master it with out a friend, ami so are some men when they lose a dog.—Biughaiulon Hcpub li van. A baby boru in Ohio is without hands. When be grows up he will bo able to sweep his town for the office of Trens urer.—Philadelphia Lodger. A man always knows what he would have done iu another fellow's place, but the other fellow doesn't alwiys believe it.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Mamma—"Don't you know that your 1 father is the mainstay of the family?" Freddy—"Golly, ain't he, though! And tho spanker, too."—Brooklyn Life. Miss Antique—"Won't your mother go with us?" Miss Rosebud—"No, she says she doesn't think she is old enough to chaperon you, dear."—Dotroit Free I'res9. "Oh, dear!" sighed llenry, whoso ; clothes are all made of his papa's old ones, "papa's had his mustache shave I | off, an' I suppose I've got to wear it i now."—Tid-Bits. Fidgety Lady—"But what am I to do? I can't ride witli my back to the engine." Sarcastic Youth—"Better speak to the guard. He'll turn the train around."—Tld-Bits. Train Conductor—"All aboard. Hurry up, miss, if you are going by this train." Little Girl—"Just a minute, till I kiss mamma." Conductor—"Jump aboard; I'll attend to that."—Oakland Echoes. Billy the Beau—"Anything new in engagement rings?" Jeweler—"Yes; our new 'Seaside' plated goods arc cheap, and are warranted to out wear any sum mer resoit engagement." Jewelers' Weekly. Hostess—"What has become of Sandy Smith,who stood so big'.' in yuui" class?" Alumnus—"O", lie's taken orders.' Hostess—"He's lu the ministry, then?" Alumnus—"No; iu a restaurant. '— Brooklyn Life. Friend—"Does your sou belong to th • old or the new school?" Old Lady (whose son is a physician) "'Mi, ho doesn't belong to nuy school ut all now; he's been graduated for two years."— Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Watts—"Mary Ann, these balus ters seem always dusty. 1 was at. Mm. Johnson's to-day, and her stair rails are clean and us smooth as glass." Mary Ann—"Vis, mem. She lius t'tee schmall boys."—lndianapolis Journal. "If you like," said the younir man at the desk, "I'll litre your poem sub ■•utted to the editor." "No," she answered positively, "I'll read it aloud to him. I prefer to have tin editor sub mitted to the poem."—Washiugt m Star. "I to'd you yesterday I would not inniry you," said she. "I know it," said he. "That is why I a*k you again to-day. You would not be so lacking iu originality, I ho|tc,is to repeat to-day what you said ycSterday."— Harper's Bazar. Judge—"You stole the pocket book, but how is it that you did not appropri ate the watch lymu by the aide ■>l ill" Prisoner "You don't wean to any Iw s as «'aft as that 112 I couldn't have ooti< el it. You must ci< Me me, !- Tetas Millings, lie—"l thought the lirid in.l groom were going to »uri rigul off on their wedding trip, inslta I of waiting.'' rthtt "I hey were. 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