SULLIVAN JBKfo REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. London has more than doubled ita population in the past half century. Collectors of autographs remark that, while the typewriter never will supplant holograph letters altogether, it will mako them scarcer and more valuable. The Boston Globe flguros it out that 31,000 out of our population of 65,- 000,000 own $:>(■>,250,000,000 of our Nation's total wealth of $1)2,010,000,000, otherwise one man out of every 2000 owns more than all the rest of the 2000. The announcement that California would shortly becoino the seat of an ex tensive perfumery industry is now re ported to be without adequate founda tion, as the flowers are said to lack tho strength of odor required to make the manufacture of extracts profitable. Determined not te lose its reputation as the great obituary paper of the country, the Philadelphia Ledger, with what the New York Advertiser esteems ccmmendable alacrity, has secured auto graph obituaries of all tho members of the Peary relief expedition. It could not have been a very cheerful occupation for the writers. A woman of inventive mind, dis covered by the New York Sun,is experi menting on a rubber coating for iron stone china used in restaurants and do mestic porcelains. She thinks these should be as feasible as the noiseless tire nnd tho mounting of chair leg* iu libra ries and reading rooms. Incidentally she expects to find in her invention a large fortune, but her aim is distinctly phi lanthropic. The New York Independent believe? that the cultivation of athletics at girls' schools and colleges is likely to receive some stimulus from an award made by the United States Treasury Department to Miss Bertie Burr, of Nebraska, for rescuing two young women from drown ing. Miss Burr, who learned how to swim at Lisell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass., will receive, not-the silver medal awarded for heroism, but the gold medal only granted for cases of extraordinary daring and endurance. A novelty in business enterprise is soon to be introduced iu New York City, according to tho News. It may be tersely described as a beuevolent pawn shop. The mere suggestion of a pawn ship with an aspiration higher than three per cent, a month makes this subject highly interesting. It ii said that cer tain wealthy persons, connected with the Charity Organization Society, have determined to establish pawnshops throughout the city, to bo operated at cost. Bcnevolcuco and philanthrophv usually fail in the conduct of business enterprises, however, and the project of a cut-rate pawnshop may disappoint its well-meaning projectors. Flying machines for use in war liavs engaged no little attention of late on the part of inventors. Maxim, the designer of the famous gin, claims to have pro duced one which can ho controlled. Ho | declares that he can till his aerial car with explosives and hover in it over the city of London, holding that great me tropolis at ransom to the extent of as many millions of pounds as he chooses to mention. Thm situated he can announce his terms by dropping a small package containing a statement of them and his ' ultimatum of "Cash or Crash!" His | contrivance is a cylinder of aluminum ! containing a three-fourths vacuum, its collapse being prevented by strong ribi inside. It is propelled and steered by ' electric gear, and is further sustained and balanced by the wings of a great aeroplane, with an automatic arrange- j incut of a compensatory nature that brings the machine immediately lurk to j the horizontal when it tends to vary I therefrom. When Bernard Hchuiiz, having been in I this country lwe*ty-tix years, went back I to Germany ou a vidt two years .go, he j was seized and put into the Ueruiau army i to serve his terui a« a German eitueu. Vainly his Kansas neighbors sent peti tions for his release, a* nobody paid any attention to ihem. Finally his littht tliyen year ill girl, Miggie Hehinu, j wrote a h < ter lo th< I imprest of liuiin my, telling hei 111 artlesa child fashion how I h. r luothei aud the children all missed j their father, ,ud I* :|iiig that he might he sent 1.4. k to them. The letter was | but emli uflt .a! lulo whose bauds il fell : sent it on, and at last it iMelted Ihe ' Km pi i»«. |'ti« little gill's pie* tout hed I her motherly i,«u, *„.| though her lu unco,.,, . I ii } .1., ll i in papers, I tb«nistpi4> i Thus wi i t vV iluwe, dee I w .ii^iwl, THE SONO OF PEACE. A song is astir in the air. And I would drink it in With the scent of the roses rich and rare; But still the battle's din Kings in my ears and deafens me; 1 cannot hear the strain. The noise of the world, its misery. Throbs like a bitter pain. But now and then, as in despair I seek to rend the bonds. Comes a burst of harmony on the air To which my heart responds; And then the echo of the fray A moment seems to cease; Though the wondrous harmony dies away. That moment brings me peace. And then I pray 1 may retain A peacefulness of heart. Though the warrior's laurels X fail to gain, Or riches of the mart. For that sweet song will give me rest, And banish all distress; The flowers of God and tl)e gold of the West Will be my happiness. —Flavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Bazar. HIS DAY*AT HOME. BY EMMA A OFPEH. PO, I can't say I enjoy George's sick days at home," said Mrs. Par fitt. "He's sure to be poking into things and making himself generally disagree able. Dear boy! he isn't that way any other time. I'll war rant you, Conny"— Mrs. Parfitt shot a humorous glance at her husband's ex tremely pretty young cousin, who stood, in street attire, waiting for her—"that he won't want to give me the money for my new jacket to-day at all. But there's the Carpenters' reception Thursday,and— Wait for me! I'll try it." And Mrs. Parfitt ran down stairs, with a v.iliant smile. She found her husband in the library. He was young and comely, but a strip of red flannel on his throat, a shawl untidily worn, and a gloomy expression of coun tenance, did not improve him. "I'd stay at home, dear," said Mrs. Parfitt, "if there was anything I could do for you." "There isn't,"said her husband, short ly. "This beastly cold has got to wear itself out." "Conny and 1 are going out for a lit tle shopping, then. And if you can let me have the money for my spring jacket now, George? I'm a little late about getting it as it is, you know. It's the tan one, with a striped satin lining—aw fully pretty —ai Brtght's—" "I don't know anything about any jacket!" George snapped. "I'm harassed enough in mind and body, Kate, without your persecuting me." "In mind?" said Mrs. Parfitt, patiently resigning herself. This was one of George's days at lioroe, "Yes, in mind!'' He threw off his shawl, and sat up and glowered at her. "What do you think about Hugh Dudley and Constance, anyhow?" "Hugh Dudley and—Constance?" Mrs. Parfitt stared a little. "That's what 1 said. He's coming here all the time, isn't he? What's he coming for?" Mrs. Parfitt looked into her lap. A smile dawned on her fresh lips. "I—really, I—" she jiurmured. "I feel responsible for Constance,'' said George, scowling impartially at everything. "I asked her here, and if shi does anything to—to disgrace the family,l shall feel to blame for it. Hugh Dudley I Would Uncle Joe or Aunt Agnes want her iO marry Hugh Dudley? A mere— mere—" no fit term presenting itself. "I don't like himl" Mr. Parfitt proceeded, warmly. "In the coffee busi ness! And I don't believe he knows who his grandfather was!" Sirs. I'artitt looked oddly demure. "Isn't the coffee busiucss creditable, George, dear?" she queried. "And the Dudleys are a very good family, George, really, and everybody likes Hugh." "I don't!" George retorted. "Hugh Dudley!—when, with the slightest en couragement, Thomas Danfoith—" "Oh!" Mrs. Parfltt murmured. "You needn't think tint has set inc against Hugh Dudley, though. It hasn't —it hasu't at all. It isu't merely that Tom's a friend of mine; it's the differ ence in the fellows. Tom's a brick—a brick, Tom Dauforth is!" said Mr. Par fltt, with an emphu-u which amounted to ficrcenost. "And forCoustance Beryeu to deliberately take up with the worse n:nn of the two, wheu she might have the better, it galls me! I'll never in/ito her here agaiti, lulu I you that—nor any body else! ' He flung back into his chair. "1 think Conny will—perhaps—be living litre before 1 .tig, dear,'' nis wife rejoined, mildly. She had retreated to the hall. "Andy <u—won't give lue the money for my jack -" "No!" said her husband, emphatic- He heard the frout dour close directly, and said tobiWMtl that he was more than g'ad to be all mi', He *up poke I that Constance was up Mans,but ho Man iu uo mood for Ulkiug lo (uuslauc*—far from it. lie was thoroughly aud ludiguautly out of |Millei»ce with her. lie wsnt lulo the kitchen aud asked the cook to make Mm some giugei tea immediately. Il< lutmcg, he saw fruiu the wiudow a sight «hi> It caused hiiu lo utier au nasptiated gtowl. Hugh Dud ley was driving up < uskly iu his ro#d i ut -llit tail su l his well-groomed liorse and his <>»n good looting f%<e all shluiug lu the lay# ol lite m .ruing lltolga luol hlUi si tile dooi before lliu Mali • »uhl tlUStl u.« bvli. "Is Mue I (sign. *' the taller beg%u with • smile, o<«n»g iu shake hand*. Ml I'slßtl l|Su|*i Ills liu4 "id.e M U"t at i.uuis, Mid, 4* LAPOKTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1892. liberately, with no trace of bis accusing conscience in his displeased face. To admit Hugh Dudley and hear him and Constance chattering and giggling for two hours in the parlor was too much, lie wouldn't have it. The young man's face fell perceptibly. "When will she be at home?" he faltered, embarrassed betweeu his dis appointment and his awe of Mr. Parfitt's stern looks. "I have not the remotest idea," George responded. Would the fellow keep him there uttering mendacities all day! Not but that the cause was good and sufficient, but he was not accustomed to lying. "I'm sorry, Hugh Dudley declared." He lingered, looking touchiugly un happy, only Mr. Parfitt was not touched. He looked as though he was waiting to shut the door, and the visitor retreated down the steps and into his cart. Ellen had the ginger tea ready. It was not strong enough, and too sweet. And when Ellen, having been some what gruffly informed of it, had made some afresh, Mr. Parfitt drank it, and resumed his shawl and his chair and his uncomfortable reflections. The door-bell rang again. George thought ho knew' the ring. Sure enough, it was Tom Dauforth! "Laid up?" that young man demand ed, coming in breezily, big and broad shouldered and bright-eyed and cheerful. "Too bad! On your lungs? Have you tried a capsicum plaster? I can get you one in five minutes if you want me to." "It's in iny head," said George dis mally. But he smiled his pleasure at Torn Danforth's appearance, and wrung the young man's hand and took his coat and hat. "I'm glad you came—glad to see you! Stay to lunch, won't you? Have this foot-rest, Constance is home —up stairs," he said, in a breath. "Just wait," he ended, eagerly. I'll go get her." But he came back sulkily. "She wect out with Kate, it seems," he explained in an injured manner. "I didn't know it. They're always gadding about. Have some maraschino or some thing?" "Cordial at this hour of the day?" Tom protested, looking the soul of reas suring good nature and betraying no ex citement at the fact of Constance's absence. lie even took up a newspaper. '•Ho doesn't care," George mused, gloomily. "May'be he isn't in love with her after all." And he sat and eyed his stalwart friend, and thought what a husband he would have made for Constance, and how blind and contrary and exasperating they all were and how helpless he him self was to arrange matters as they ought to be arranged. He fell into unhappy silence. "Has the cashier of the FYeeseborough Bank really gone oil with the funds?" said Tom, with his handsome nose in the paper. "There's a rumor to that effect. Stewart's his name. He's rich enough anyhow. He ought to be—" The bell again 1 It was Mrs. Parfltt, looking pretty and pink cheeked after the fresh air, and as blithe as though going to the Carpen ters' reception in her old beaded wrap were not going to be a horrid necessity. "Oh, you, Tom?" she cried, cordially. "I am so glad! Poor George is so wretched with that cold, and you can cheer him up!" "1 don't need cheering up," said George, huddling his shawl closer. "Where is Constaucc?" "Conny ?" said Mrs. Parfitt, brightly. "Oh, we met Hugh D.idley in his cart, and he took Conny along with him. What a «tylish turnout he has!" Mrs. Paraf.tt unpinned lur bonnet. "He did, did he?" llcr husband twitched ill his chair so violently that his elbow knocked the giuger-tea cup to the floor. Tom picked it up. "I wonder if that scamp has taken the money, if it will burst the bank?" he said. "It's a shame!" "What bank?" Mrs. Parfitt ques tioned. And an animated discussion ensued. Mrs. Parfltt knew the defaulting cash ier's daughter; Tom D.inforth had kuowu his brother. George, who knew more about him tban cither of them, contri buted nothing to the conversation. He leaned back and shut his eyes, three distinct vertical lines showing be tween then. He confessed to himself that he was entirely out of temper; but he had—certainly he had—ample cause for being so—ample distracting cause, lie begun to think about gong up and going to bed as a temporary escape fiom his afflictions. "And I'm sorry enough for Sally Stewart—There's Conuyl" said Mrs. i'artitt. "Slid she shouldn't be goue long." Coustanco caine sweeping in. Her stylish lung druea trailed alter her wilh line elleet. Her light coat was open,and allowed the white silk rest of h«r dress. Her little has »et back prettily on her fair hair which was blowu into many straying tendrils. George thought, with a mental groan, that the had never looked so !• /■ "Oh, Tout, you I" Const...ice cried, quite as Mrs. i'arlltt had doue. And then, not at all as Mis. Parflti had done, she gave Itiut both her lnud< and—lt was uo halluciuatiou, It was a fail—aud let him kiss her. Kite tinned upon her cousin with bet blue eyes sweetly dewy, "Do you like it, Georgef" she said "Are you glad' I kuow you like lon Areu'l you pleases)l We'd have told you helore, but we ve only l>»eu eugaged a week, aud uol-ody but Kate has kuowu it so 141 "Aud I thought 1 wouldn't blurt it ..ul said I.in .l4iidiUK.ltu.hed ai. I beaming, "I thought I'd lei t'ouuy tell you, you kuow." "Ate you two engaged ?l Usetge • I.lit? (Hiti lit lu nI Jit* • lie s eye. "Il.cn how about Hugh Dudley I" • Mi. Dudley t" tail C.usisuci, vaguely "iMt, U» tg«! V"U haseu I ifcoogi.t ihat Muf U liudiej • aule t lit*. or I him? Why, it's all about Grace Qu'nby. They were engaged, you know, and then they had some ridiculous trouble or other; and Grace and I have been so chummy ever since I've been here that Mr. Dudley came right to me with it. He's been here two or three times to tell me things to tell her, and I've told her all of them, for Grace was foolish and hasty, and it really wasn't Mr. Dudley's fault at all, and I've been anxious for th*m to make it up. And now they have. He came this morning to get me togo there with him, and he met mo on the street and we went. And Grace began to cry when she saw him, and I came away, and—" Constance was sympathetically tearful. "We'll never quarrel, will we, Tom?" she demanded, tenderly. And Tom stroked her hand. "Kate!" cried Mr. Parfltt, sternly. But his wife, laughing till her pink choeks were red,- slipped her hand through his arm. "You're a dear, good boy," he avowed, "and I was a mean, drendtful girl to do it! But, George, you were so cross about my jacket that I wanted so— you're always a little cross when you're at home sick, you know—and I thought you'd know it so soon anyhow, and it was a temptation, and—l'm awful sor ry." said Mrs. Parfitt, pleadingly. "Where's my pocket-book?" said George. "You shall have that jacket. I meant you to all the time. I'm over joyed and rejuvenated and cured, and I'm going down to the office."— Saturday Night. Drawn by the Wehfootetl Cows. The wobfooted cows who inhabit tho marshes along the St. John's River in Florida—l know that they are webfoot.ed, for Captain Lund says so, and Captaiu Lund never lies—are of some use after all, it seems, aud this is the how and the wherefore of it. In the merry month of April the water in the St. John's gets very low, and the two big steamboats, Frederick De Bary and City of Jacksonville, which go up and down it during the winter season, are sometimes hard put to it to get over the numerous bars. If it were not for the webfooters, Captain Lund says—and Captain Lund never lies—they would never get up to Sandford and Comfort Cottage, and would have to come North a month or more before they could be ol service. The worst bar of all is Volusia Bar, and here four times a day, at the hours when the steamboats are due, a number of Floridians put iu an appearance with from four to eight yoke of the gay aud festive kind, almost too thin to cast s shadow, hitched up for business. Then follows a scene such as few steam boat men have ever witnessed. The cows are hitched to the boat by three stout chains, the drivers iai*e a shout, and with all steam on and a mighty tug-of* war, the stout iron steamboat is dragged through the mud and sand and landed in deep water again. Captain Lund says he has a set of iron tires which he puts on the paddle wheels the first of May, which enable him to take short cuts across the country, thus shortening the distance by about one half, and as Captain Lund was never— no, never—known to draw the long bow or to tell a story which was not strictly according to Iloyle, down go tho tires across country and all. And yet there are people who persist Ingoing to Europe strange siarhts for to sec. It is otic of the wonders which no man, ami not very many hundreds of womeu, can fathom.—Now York Herald. Freak of u Thunderbolt. The annaU of a French Academy of Science tell of a tailor's adventure with a thunderbolt. He lived in a house pro vided with two chimneys, one for a fire place and the other for a stove,tho latter not iu use. D.tring a thunderstorm a tremendous report was heard, and every boly thought that the house had been struck by lightning. Instantly a blue flaming ball dropped into the flroplacj aud rolled out into the room, seemingly about six inches above the floor. The excited tailor ran around the room, tho ball of tire playing about his feet. Sud denly it rose above his head aud moved off toward the stovepipe hole in the coil ing, which had a piece of paper pasted over it. The ball moved straight through the papar aud up til.- chimney. Wheu near the top it exploded aud toru the chimney into thousands of fragments. The sight of the debris left by tho ex plosion showed the family what would have been the consequences had it ex ploded while on its gyrating passage through the room.—St. Liuis llepublic, \ Struuge Disease. James Mullen, of Lmtsville, Ky., bled to death the other day, as the result of a strange malady which has for mouths battled the skill of the physicians. Ills blood lost all its coogulutive properties and had taken ou tliu appearance ami couaisteuce of fre»h milk. The corpus cles of the blood ha I become pcifrclly white, from a small scratch or cut the blood flowed with such rapidity that ou several occasions it was scarcely able to be stopfied before causing death. One morning one ol Ihe xoalhsinf tli blood vi-»»els under the tonuuu became broken. Ihe point while tin blood came from was so small that uo danger was appre bended al all. AU elforU, however, to stop the flow were (utile Kvery remedy was resorted to, but to uo avail, aud iu Utile less lhau au hum Hi. Mullen Med In death—New orb 41.* I'lvwyiuM. A Hotel Hy lrai> A nsia ureal keeper in W nhiiigt .n in. ttamed a ler.{« rat to calm ihe flies .nil. idle luulhs tint Infest his ial i'»- lishmeul. Lite ret, II is s«id, lies de v. loped au iuordmaiu taste fur Hit* bmd ol 10..d, aud sptttids .11 hi* ttuu In hunt Ih^owe vsty sspun He i« ««ry um«, aud pay* no aiieulio i lu lisu people who H>ay be in lb# budding, ot lo sujlUln.' viae en ipi his WtHg< i ptey —New K| IV.us i'uejttM. THE MISSISSIPPI'S FLOOD. WHAT CAUSES THE GREAT RIV ERS ANNUAL OVERFLOW. Rivers and Bayous Hare Built Up Ridges on Which They Flow—ln undating lho Bottom Lands. EVERY spring tho Mississippi Riv er, swollen by the melting of the snow in tho Rocky Moun tains and by the nbundnnt spring rains, threatens with inundation the low lands of Mississippi and Louisi ana. Not infrequent it breaks through the bonds which confine its course and spreads its muddy waters over thousands of square miles of that fertile region, destroying the fields of young cotton and cane, and burying the fertile soil be neath layers of river mud. Those who read accounts of these in undations, of their wide-spread destruc tion and of tho immense areas covered by them, may be at a loss to understand how the mere fact of this river overflow ing its banks can lead to sucli extensive floods. These bottom lands are a peculiar re gion. Originally a shallow arm of the gulf, they have been filled by deposits from the river. Even at present nine tcnths of the region is a marsh covered with grass or cypress forest, through which flows the Mississippi with its branches, and which are intersected by countless bayous, forming an intri cate network of water courses. All tho streams, with scarcely an exception, flow upon the tops of ridges. These rides are low, rising but ten to twenty feet above the intervening ares of marsh, and range iu breadth from a few rods up to perhaps four miles. The stream bed is in a notch upon the summit. These ridges have been built by tho streams. In former times, before the streams were confined to their beds by levees, they overflowed their banks with every high "tide," as the flood is called. The river, always muddy, is in time of flood heavily charged with scdiiucnt, brought perhaps from the high plains and the Rocky Mountains. Wbcre the stream is rapid it has no difficulty in bearing onward its load of sediment, but, when its velocity is checned, as it is when the stream is suddenly broadened, it is lorced to deposit some of it. When the stream overflows its hanks it be comes thus broadened, its velocity is checked, and it consequently deposits some of its load, the coarsest material first, the liner material later. Ity this process of overflow have the rivers and bayous built up the ridges 011 which they flow. Tho ouly habitable and tillable parts of this region are the geutle slopes of these river ridges, aud upon these, which form but a trilling proportion of the en tire area, the inhabitants are congre gated. The roads commonly follow the river, running immediately at tho foot of the levee, and it is along these roads that the houses are found. The planta tions stretch in narrow strips buck from the river. The levees, which are built continu ously along both sides of the river and principal bayous of this region, are sometimes ton or twelve feet in height, and in time of flood tho river is fre quently full up to the top of the levee. One may ride nloug the road under the levee with tho water of the river live or six feet above his head. When the river is in flood the levees are patroled night and day by the in habitants, watching lor tin? slightest in dication of weakness. A thin stream of water the size of one's linger breaking through the lower part of the leveo may in an hour, if unchecked develop into a break or crevasse which can not be closed, and which may involve a loss of millions of dollars to the neighboring country. Such breaks are often caused by the bur rowing of animaN,or more frequently by rice flumes or openings throi,di the levees for the purpose of letting water into tho rice fields. Scarcely a spring pnsse* that such cre vasses do not occur from such trifling origin. Tho levee, once broken, the waters pour through, lapidly Widening the breach, and rush down the slope of thu river ridge direeily aa ay from the river. On reaching the swamp, the cur rent is broken aud diverted and the waters, spreading up and down sttcaut, gradually ri*e back toward tin- levees mi either side. They pour also through the swamp, anil extend to (hn ridges of neighboring streams, flooding the > ulti vated lands upon them. Thus it i-. o isy to nee that, since tiie whole country lies below tlu level of the river, if a way is onee opened for the water into the coun try.it may spread indefinitely and involve widespread ruin and destruction. —Cour ier-Journal. A lIUli Mountain Railway. The most rwtniljr complete I high nouutai 11 railway in Switzerland is tlut ip the Rothhorn, 7'iAO feet high, from lake and town of linen/, not far from interlakuii. I'he road wan compu ted »o hat a locomotive lilcliid tint summit K.'tuber ill, and will lie opened tho 1 mr lUg stlisou. i'he RotUhoru will rout 11.mil a magnificent view of the luugfr til net the other mountain* south aud south ast of Ititerlakeit. I'liu material through which the eleven tuuticU ot this hue ale i-scavalcd lot! staled of debris which had •lipped down thu Mountain, aud win. h seemed dis|tosed togo ou sliding w heu disturbed- tiuhtvrrauoait springs also luade the work dilticull, aud in plates •ss beds had to lw uiade foi uiouutaiu stream* Scieaiiih American, t Nun llcaler The highest vilmtj «ver uiveu la a tauiiou bait 1* estimated al l''«il l< el p« » mull. Ihe ytloiil) Ot (In 1 ,ii|, ,i th* equator, due to it* rotation m tu a«ts, it itNMi mill • pel h mi, u| a mile tu .1 ti Hi<M li. I'lmielofe, II a Ol.nuti bait sin dud due west, and i mid maiultiu its latitat velofc'itjp, it mould heat ills sua iu hi* appatsui juuiwef atound tuv Mitfc, aa *1 LoUIS Terms—Bl.oo in Advance; 81-26 after Three Months, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. By years of exposure to atmospheric temperature, hardened steel loses hnrd nese. A new application of electricity con sists in determining by the conductivity of milk the presence of adulteration. Steel not only loses its magnetism, but becomes non-magnetic when heated to an orange color. A remarkable strike has been made in the Eclat mine, Creede, Col. The ore runs high in silver. Specimens assay over #BOO a ton. When a lamp is first lighted leave the flame low until the metal of the burner is heated: then turn as high as possible without smoking. This secures a steady flame. A small cabinet containing an alarm clock, a three-candle-power lamp, a medical coil and a gas-lighter, all op erated by clectrieity from four colls of dry battery, is among the novelties re cently devised. Silvanus Thompson says that the sud den slamming on of the armature of a permanent magnet is liable to deteriorate the magnetism; and that the sudden de taching of the armature is of advantage to tte magnet. The Government authorities at Wash ington are experimenting with a vege table rarity called the "jumping bean." If placed on a smooth table it keeps con stantly on the move, jumping about, turning over, and performing all kinds of acrobatic tricks. Dymond has recently succeeded in ex tracting from lettuce an alkaloid which closely resembles belladonua in appear ance, taste and smell, but which in a dose of live grains, is without injurious effects. The alkaloid corresponds in formula closely to hvoscyamine. Too quick a discharge buckles the plates and a very sudden discharge draws the paste out of them. When fulled charged plate; which have been removed from the electrolyte are to bo replaced, the liquid putin should have the same specific gravity as it was before. Coal is mined in Turkey, in Meraclea and Koslu, both on the Black Sea and about 100 miles from Constantinople. The mines at Heracles are controlled by the Ottoman Government; the Koslu mines by a private firm, Kurtschi As Co. The coal obtained is inferior in quality to the English mineral, especially to the Cardiff and Newcastle coal. Few people have an idea how thin a sheet of veneer may be cut with tlio aid of improved machinery. There is a firm in Paris which make a business of cutting veneers, aud to such perfection have ttey brought it that from a single tusk thirty inches long they will cut a sheet ot ivory 1!>0 incb ,; long nnd twenty inches wide. Some of the sheets of rose wood and mahogany are only about a fiftieth of an inch in thickness. Of course, they cannot cut all woods so thju as this, for the grain of many varieties is not sufficiently close to enable such tiue work to be done, but the sheets of box wood, maple and other woods of this character are often so thin as to be trauslucent. Freaks of Human Vision. "I do not suppose this world looks alike to any two persons," said Thomas McHeury at the Southern. "A dozen of us were looking at the moon the other night. To one it appeared the size of a five cent piece, to another much larger than a cart wheel. To one it appeared a well-rounded globe, and to another a fiat circular piece of brass. I noticed this diversity of human vision once in Ualvestou, Texas. I saw a man named O'Dell shoot a fellow gambler named Quiulan to death. lie tired four shots from a large revolver. At the trial one man testified that Quintan had a knife lu his hand at the time of the shooting. Another thought it was a cane, while a third expressed the opinion that it was a billiard cue. I was standing facing him when he was shot, and would make oath that his hands were open and con tained nothing. Those who testified were disinterested spectators, and told on the stand what they honestly though they saw. The shooting began in a sa loon. Quintan ran out, followed by O'Dell, who kept shootiug. Some thought one shot was fired in the saloon, others thought three, yet all were look ing right at the two m»n. You often hear people say that what they see they know ; but they dou'l. They have no assurance that they saw right. A man who implicitly believes hi* eyes is liable to fall Into grievous error."—St. Louis Ulobe Democrat. Lighting the HtMrs. Mabel Greene is a Brooklyn five-year old. She is full of odd conceits. The other evening she stool at a window of her home with her pretty face flattened against the pane intently watcliiug a .lowly gatheruig storm Oirkcr grow the low hanging cloa Is, but M abet showed uo signs o| fear, luslead her features were animated aud she appeared to lie alnorbed in the Mieue. Even when a violent clap of thunder seeruetl to rend the heavens aud foiked light UlUg flashed the child was UUUl'iVed At last, tiling of the sight, Mtbel turned tuber mother, silting near. ''Mamma." shu Mid, ' I link I''l l« dettiu' wead) to ligbi lit. star*." "Why, darling'" '* Valise li« » s» ralt hits* mate lias on the sky."—No* York nuu. % . tl.ss* Dn.l Moral I'rof Miiue, of foklu, ret ods a dum Sturm of yellow dust «tilt hsu Idenly WtWHll ill* Uet ks uf a Vessel UlUel) tin utile* from Nagat.kl, lapan. sliii lis Upward, ul |Hi miles Ir.MU IU« 0101 111 t Ulna lliisdust was tluv llial, llmoa HSMMnI Mftpif, |Uails, an.l . . •hied. ul plants, It did )«>it »ll el tin eyes, ami ha- 1 not the din ks Imcu tot | sled mill Ul It hat' Um nut taken for a |a> 4lh|il| yellow log Vet j it seems Ih ha»e attended lm 10ail) | ijiMMi nilies 1 and Ist have vwo>< lium tb» "iue*s piaiet el k h*na NO. 45. THE CUP OF i-XFJB. "Bat is it sweet, or bitter, tall me true, This Cup of Life?" Then, lying deep in dew, A youth, who wore a rose in bud, I think, Made answer: "It is bitter. Wherefore drink 112" With that he tore his heart's first flower away i "Love is a rose that withers in a day. Love leaves a thorn that tears one's hands— and see. How red the blood that thorn was wrung from me!" So hummed the boy and vanished through the trees, Astir with dove-wings and in bloom with bees, But, when dead leaves had whirled in frozen rain For many a year, 1 met that boy again. Hid in his mask of scars, I knew his face. His white beard blew about him with a grace. All winds of God had waited about his head. "But is it sweet or bitter?" still I said. Oh, but that youth laughed lightly I"In my day I called it bitter. Golden heads turn gray. I longed when young to break it at my feet. But oh, its Inst drop* are exceeding sweetl'" . —Sarah M. B. Piatt, in independent. HUMOIt OF THE DAY. Hard words break no bones; there arc no bones in the heart.—Puck. '•Were you upset by the bank failure?" "Yes. I lost my balance."—Life. Solf-mado men usually try to make themselves from gold dust.—Puck. The world comes to him who wuits; but he is dead when it gets there Puck. "Figurescau't lie," you sayf Hush! As long as a liar cau figure Prison Mirror. The tortoise onco beat the hare; but the hare is not so sleepy uowiidtivs. It hasn't happened since. Puck. I occupied the pew alone, She sat near to me. What could i do? I had no changa And so I dropped that V. Life. We are all made out of dust; the onls difference is that some people have more sand in them than others.—Atchison Globe. The heart is that part of you which leads you into scrapes front which vour head has to extricate you.—Atchison Globe. Men are a good denl like hummers. 1 heir "blow is much more effective when they have a handle to their name. —Puck. It would not ho so for a man to think constantly of himself if ho were ever able to give an impartial criticism. —Washington Star. Every man blushes as he gets older at the recollection that at one time his idea of bravery was to do something to make the girls scream.—Atchisou Globe. When the prescription clerk gets tin bottles mixed it becomes easier to see why prescriptions are always written in a dead language.—Washington Star. A good name is different from other kinds of property. The best way to keep it from being stolen is to leave it open to the inspection of all.—Puck. If "It takes nine tailors to make a man" (Suppose I grant—we're only human), How many dressmakers does it take To make a fashionable woman? Life. B. K. Woods—"l want a plain wed ding-ring." Jeweler—"Solidf" B. K. Woods—-"Well, if we wasn't 1 guess wc wouldn't hardly be gittin* s[ I'ced."- - Jewelers' Weekly. There is a man for whom the fun. Of lite 1- turned to gall; His paths in lonely plaees run— He never play is I l«»s. ball. Washington star. Prospective Purchaser—"Let in" see your latest prices for hard coal, please." The Proprietor—"Jiiuuy, show this gentleman to our astronomical observa tory."—Chicago News Record. The little laity bee toi.s on Tlir,nigli every d> y th»t'« sunny. And then some mail who never wor!.s Comes 're nin I nud gels the honey. Washington Star. Circus man (hunting for a stray ele phant ) --"Have you seen a strange aui tual around here I Irishman "Begorra, Oi ho* that; there was an injur rubber bull arouud here pulliu' carrots wid his tail."—Harvard lampoon. Irene is fair au I tall And beautiful and voting, \\ ell might tin - grace* all In poetry be •nag. Bat ttieu her mouth's an mall It cannot hold Iter tnu^ue. —Judge. M here There's No W ill Thi re « a May. A prominent business man of northern Ohio receutly exnrwwil to one of il<e ca»hier* of a city bank a novel idea of leaving his money >0 that there might In) no coutrst after hi. death. He has a wife, three sou. and a wnywsrd daughter and purposes keeping In. propert) u municipal Ih uds His plan i.this 111- has divided Ilia IHUHW into litre* parts, after providing for hi* a lf<, and put theot into three supaiae biles at the safe t|e|Hi 11 t-iults. the keys he has |nil Into envelopes mat kid foi each one of his sous, to b« delivered t„ itiwu after hi. death. For his daugblsr lie let. de posited Willi a trust • >lllll mil, certain h t unites whnh will yield her #|ini ,m in.mill as long as the live, iht- |iimi|Msl lo Issert to ihe sons eoutily, sfcan sod share alike, at hel death Ihi his Hal caul lie and manufacturing interest, he has lllewiw .Hanged • *en t-lsval .chelue i|*l has gtveu outright to hit li.lee sou. til tin llieli .utile tud msini I*. lining pi iperty, shale and shafe alike, Imt they have in turn esctuied to hi in a lease of the m>ui dor t>«g hit life for a nominal cuu.ld*lanm, » i that ht ha. lha cuntied itl esvfjlhing so long as he lliia. This man »sjs an wtU >«n It# lia»u who h will stand «v#«y u»t sn«| that the shots Milteme Is Ifcsi only t is> ilntl thing he knows uI ahe's lb««. sr. Ismiiy mmm frliiaitottl Wtafaiaad »*•«■»
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