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 ►»■»<! the foreign horn M....cue iu that I
Utf <ss> .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 <i» lie > „
•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«," <on lacwull* obseivr I the at j|
list, "I ihtuk it i« rather ywutl."
"And lite little do# siltiug by lb
door It ju»l iseillj as r,atu»« « lite! t
Ite »d b l
Klla lrowr.i l, »
"The iit« <1 dotj, as i rail *,'• sard .
she, "It 11. slump 112 Mi. old tret
l».;u't sla . I I' Sis close, pi. i»« I I ,
caul M"is iu) r|isi«. H
Outsell I'H I ||c I vok u|< hi i ( sll i
Mi'l rwoetd on
•'I'M (l««|« the VMMg thing,' *
Is I he, iu a »"t» ul »ksj*< > »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 '
<mug man -uol at all the ball |«tte I '
tilr a I king I u tpi cted to ste. And lie
< most km I and gracious, and hit I
iromlsed to recouiuiead us every wtieic." I
i Imi * i t Hid tin' nun MUM M I
' id, followed hy two uf thrsii Majfuil- 11
it Imuii ls. t.iini spiting up is lilt a i
"Why," s'.e e«. lane •I, "It's I. mis - '
i't I Tiiiii itiiiiir" j.
11. held out both Its hail Is. I I
"| .411 I!.*». . hanged so vrty ninth ,
heal" e«td he '' I i
Ai the same ln.Uul Kl ui'seyes •annlit
H'l • ul a »li uij;e utikil at.me Hit j
mlted door»ay a plsled horse li
. i ' • i ul iu II• mi ». I , !
»•¥##,"»ml he. "it's lite very ' i
ii ti«i t>.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 <le
teriiiinlog the amount of impiiritiea in
the uir. The instrument contltlj (imply
of an air pump and a tube twenty indie*
long, provided with >{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 <il any one but ever living
Inn if rtU'UtfH In mil i i mole l*iaM the
fi 4- lion o< a pnun I of ntciaiote sweet*
A» l«n ale known to Ay loi imiti in
.jtti at t«| ■uiiatite lie hit of operation it ta
t < «i Ia »iH{fie otitic# of honey it
pit Hut- miMi mi of lailti of travel It
it MO (• t<ltl I hat IkiM la I oil i ion* little
iit*»' t( litli i tint i tl|<> 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 <lc.il
ens who make a specialty of old shoes.
'l'n*. men usually have Mills in cellars.
Their wares embrace shoes of all sorts,
from the baby's tiny alipp- i i>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. But she had to change
her iM*ldllit£ dress fol a tgown,
slid the* didn't get stalled until the test
day."- I loak It v e*.
Mis, pitikerl) >u act nail you were
uiieoinf.triable, Mr I'littei " Mr. lullir
- ' Yea, Miss l'iuk»ily, the fact is, |
I a»f l ever linen altle to net ■» dmas suit
to Hi tiit*," Mlm piHkerly- • "Ptrthape
to i don't gt<l Huh- i arly vii«ugU.»
t loihier and Furttisliet.
Ill* I uail lime. i| | |i
A l< twister in 11 > *at i»ti, M t#s., hit pt.it
• i' H lite oilier ill|, ||y mm lt«i|i
■ I ol lui 'ill III' 11l I I ill 111 |l I
■ a ladi tt I, wUttH toiuttltody sitotile I
tue |i in .ig si tmud lie (liteuveye I iimi
i ' '*■ •' >i* iii t >* '
" "ti. ,| ml ii|., « ( ,i| nut,ll i (a .|
■ » % *>m lumtjSl a lis |iaa llui si
'# oi#ii#«| I :IQ Ma*», but itui until *
l iluillit* d«*lt..|vd and lite <**
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