SULLIVAN JKSk REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. X.
China has twenty times as much coal
as Europo.
The Detroit Free Press thinks "Ameri
can wheelmen arc doing a greit work in
the interest of improved roads iu this
•ountry."
A well known educator has expressed
the opinion that while university exten
sion is an excellent thing, there is danger
of running it into the ground.
The Railroad Ua/.ette insists that auto
matic couplers should not be made obli
gatory until 1900, so that the reform
may only be applied to new curs that aru
built.
AVestern Australia is about eight times
the size of the United Kingdom. It?
population, according to the census of
1891, was There are about
10,000 more males than females.
The cost of a woman's education in
various American calleges is as follows:
Cornell, $500; Mie'iigan, $370; AVelles
lcy, $350; Smith, S4OO, 15ryn Mawr,
8450; Vassar, $100; Harvard Annex,
S6OO.
A Sussex (England) correspondent
announces, on the authority of his vicar,
that nine out of ten among the humbler
brides swear to "love and liouor cherries
and a berry" instead of the regular
"cherish and obey" of the marriage
service.
The Boston Transcript says that it was
Cvrus W. Field who more than any other
man made the Berkshire Hills fashiona
ble. His father was for years tho
minister in the Congregational Ciiurch in
Stockbridge, where Jonathan Edwards
preached, and whoa the projector of the
Atlantic cnble became famous he brought
foreigners to see the beauties of his old
home.
Several young men in Nesv York
thought it a good joke, relates the At
laula Constitution, to make one of their
set think that he had inherited and
would soon receive a fortune of $14,-
000,000 from an uncle in Europe. The
news got out and the heir was flooded
with solicitations from the merchants
nud money-lenders, lie began to live in
the style of a Monte Cristo, and now re
fuses to believe .that he has bean de
ceived. The doctors say he will carry
his delusion through life.
The disappearance of the Jim Fisk
restaurant recalls to an old Ne-.v Yorker
that there were as cheap restaurants iu
New York forty years ago as now. In
the fifties there was a famous cheap res
taurant on Chatham Square. Here one
could buy for cents a good slice of
beef with potatoes and turnips. For OJ
cents more one could have plum pud
ding with rich saucu. Thus one ob
tained for 121 cents, the old York shil
ling, a wholesome an 1 satisfying meal,
aud not always iu bad e itnpany.
The demolition of Heligoland i? going
on apace. Five military watch towers
arc being erected ou the island, which is
slowly but surely crumbling away. Quo
of them, a correspondent states, is just
beginning to appear at the South Point,
the rock which rises sheer and red above
the clear, gree.i water. Only two short
years ago that point was the loneliest,
loveliest spot on the sunny, silent isl
and, aud serve 1 the superannuated,
weather-beaten fisheraieu us a station,
whence they lookc 1 out when a stor.n
was brewing, or when the fishing fleet
was overdue. Now bricks and mortar
cover the deep grass; the primitive seats
have disappeared, aud the German blue
coat reigns supreme. Close to the Gov
ernment House, in the Quids, a powder
warehouse is beiug built, aud over the
graves ol the old Frisian Kings the wans
of big barracks are rising.
Aiuouif the very loremont imitator* for
the building of buUer country road* H
ex (Jovernor Jtkiitei* A. lleuvor, of
iV'iiu*)lv.tniH, who umdo tliM thekubject
of UII f«ucutivu during hi* term
of nitlcc. Uuvernnr Heaver tut* written
lor ihu Forum HII «*|»IHIIHUOU why tuoit
coiiiittunUiM tiuil it no tliill nil to
goo l loudk. The nitltuo! tux, ht) »4y»,
wo Iwtvu btjooill# HCUMLO'IJI; 1 to; *0 we
Imvii become acourtouwl to bu liun l for
olurittble iuttiuttiou* nud for the relief
of the poor; but in 1110U KUto* the
h.tliit of gDUeritttUll*, »o 1.41 4> eoucuru*
the iui|irovciueut of r<> »• i*, li4t been the
iucllei live tytlem of "worklujf the
rott>U," ho thiit m <*' 11111 hnvo uot only
li*d it liriuiy lixe I in their mind* thui
rmd* Hie nut |>ro|Mjr tubjuut* for direct
lukitiiou, but tliut the bigUw4y» uui{Ut
be luwdu by 4 tiuHil contribution of per
koiml lubor. It it thu ioiiK 4li*i deep
rooted habit 4ii 4 l uuwilliunueM to pay 4
direct kuiti> ieut tux « ij.it u the uriutwy
c.tUte of our N41101141 ill- IHJ iii
».< lew good .tint the remedy
lie* in kucb 4u •KiUtion 44 u li4|i|<ily
now yoiujf on Iti 1110*1 for 4
keener pubim 4(»(»i«m uiton uf the direct
KUllHUkll l«i bvUM-ll« ol W«ll built lO*'il,
PHILOSOPHY.
Remember, O remember, while years are
floating by,
While springtime sceno* of joyous youth are
measuring the sky,
To garner in for later years, when life may
lose its zest,
That treasure which of treasures all Is ever,
ever blest—
A bravo Philosophyl
Remember, O reinemljor, while mauhood's
summer grows,
While striving 'iuld the piercing thorns to
pluck ambition's rose,
Though failure, pain and sacrifice may mar
thy daily path,
That these do sheath their keener pang for
him who always liath
A wise Philosophy!
Remember, O remember, when youth Is far
behind,
With only mem'ry's cloak to shield from
autumn's chilling wind.
That thou niay'st purchase refuge with the
treasure thou has won,
And fnirer, warmer radiance than shed by
summer sun,
With thy Philosophy t
Remember, O remember, when winter's icy
hand
Draws tighter and yet tighter life's slender,
golden band.
That there is hope and peace and joy and
happiness indeed,
And confidence beyond despa r, whatever bo
thy creed,
In true Philosophy 1
—Carlyle Harris, in New York World.
TIIE SNAKE BROOCH.
■ * HAD settled myself
jM in uiy corner and the
I train was already
[nlfyk swinging at a good
<BB iw ),acu d n wn .. th , e ' f ' Gold ;
Trtw 011 Vtt ' ,c y before 1
noticed, first, that I
wa ' no ' ,l ' oue i a »d
)<, JJzifely&b second, that I was
not in a smoking coni
partment.
My fellow traveler
was a lady, clothed
from head to foot in a traveling ulster
with a deep cape, and closely veiled. I
wnnfed a smoke very badly, and so 1
ventured to ask her if she had any objec
tion.
Imagine my astonishment when, in
stead of replying to my question, she
sobbed out something utterly incoherent
and burst into tears. This was startling
enough, but when I saw that she made
no attempt to take out a handkerchief to
dry her eyes, but simply sat still with
her hands folded under her cape, surprise
very quickly gave place to bewilderment.
In such a situation a man does not
reason; he simply acts on instinct.
In a moment I was at the other end of
the carriage, begging her in a clumsy,
masculine fashion to tell me what was
the matter with her. For an answer she
suddenly parted her cape and held up
two tiny clospe I aud daiutily gloved
bauds. As she diil so I heard the clink
of fteel, and something bright shown in
the lamplight.
My fair companion was handcuffed 1
Before she attempted any explanations
she opened her right haud aud showed
me one of the regulation screw keys
which alone will open the steel bracelets
that restraiu the exuberance of the unruly
or dangerous criminal.
"Please unlock thc-e horriblit things
lor me and then I will tell you every
thing," she said, jind the request was
supplemented by a beseeching glance
from a pair of tear-dewed eyes, to whose
witchery many an older man than my
self would have succumbed.
I took the key, and, after a little fum
bling about the strangely contrived locks,
set free the dainty little hands that were
stretched so appealingly toward me.
Not knowing exactly what to do with
the handcuffs, I slipped theui lor the
time being into the side pocket of my
ulster.
As soon as she got her hands free she
unbuttoned her ulster and threw it back
a little. As she did so I noticed that she
wore a strikingly curious brooch at the
neck of her dress. It was formed of
two thick gold serpents, coiled as if
ready to spring, with their heads thrust
forward side by side and their emerald
eyes gleaming with an unpleasantly life
like expression.
It was a pitiful tale and to a great ex
tent one which the newspapers have of
lute years made too commonplace.
Forced by social and pecuniary consid
erations luto a murriage with a man old
euough ti> bo her fatlier, aud possessing
no siughi taste iu common witn tier, she
had, under sore temptation, brokeu her
forced troth aud lied from his house.
Too proud to follow her himself, aud
yet menu enough to punish her by sol*,
nutting her to an unheard-of indignity,
he hail put a private detective upuu her
track, told him she was tainted with a
dangerous mania, aud giveu him strict
orders to bring her back to L indou
when caught, handcuffed liken felon.
The detective, when he overtook her
at Hereford, had giveu her a letter from
Iter husband in which he told her that if
site did not submit to hi* iustructious Ue
would pimecuto her for stealing one or
two articles of juwelry—the brooch that
she »a» wearing among them—which
she had unwittingly taken away witn
hu in thr hurry ut her flight. To avoid
the ditgrace aud public shame she had
submitted to the brutal but private
tyranny of his revenge.
At (Homester her escort had got out
to telegraph to her husband to meet them
aud had lost the tiuiu through a porter
telling him that the stop was five minute*
instead of thiue, and she ha I just seen
him ruu onto the platform as the train
left the station.
A* iiho looked round the carriage In
whirh «he now li.uu'l In i.elf free, tin
klmc kled, ibu kuw the key of her lutud
rutin, which inukt li4v«> (4lleu from hU
iKket pocket 4• he jerked hi# overc»4t
on, ttbe irted Imid to opuu the loekk,
but, of cuurtu, h*<l been uu*bh» to do SO,
UiUvot 4lid HwilldoU «••«• pftkkeii •*
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1892.
she told her tale; we conversed upon
the etrange occurrences of the night, and
the only stop before Paddingtou was
now Heading. Here my traveling com
panion decided to leave the train, as by
no means could she avoid running into
her husband's arms at the terminus.
Despite her gentlo winning manner, I
felt instinctively that persuasions would
be useless, and so I opened the door,
got out, and helped her to alight from
the carriage, and with a few murmured
words of repeated thanks she was gone.
When I got back into the carriago I
lit a cigar and lay bock on the cushions
to think over my By tho
time the train drew into Paucnngton I
had exalted my beautiful unknown into
a heroine of romance, and, I regret to
say, myself into something like a
knight errant of the days of chtvaliy.
»•♦»»»
•'This i9 it, twelve-ninety. Are you
there, Fred?" Tte train had stopped,
and a lamp Hashing into the carriage
woke me up from my day dream to hear
these strange words, apd to see a couple
of men in poliae uniform and a railway
inspector peering into the compartment.
"Hullo! this must be wrong. They
aren't here, and yet this is the right
number. Excuse me, sir, how far have
you come in this carriage?"
"From Stroud," I replied, a bit dazed
by drowsiness and my strange reception.
"Have you come all the way alone?"
Some mad idea connected in a con
fused way with tho beautiful woman
whose soft, clinging clasp I could still
feel on my hand, stopped the truth that
rose to my lips, and instead uttered the
foolish lie:
"Yes, I have been alone in the carriage
all the way."
A moment later I would have given all
I possessed to have recalled my words,
for as I uttered them the railway inspec.
tor turned his lamp under the scat
opposite to me and said iu a hoarse
whisper:
"Good Heavens! what's that?"
My eyes followed the glare of the
lamp, and I saw the toe of a uiaa's boot
on the floor of the carriage a few inches
back from the front of the seat.
A minute later and the corpso of a
somewhat undersized man, whose face
was still drawn in the agony of a violent
death, was dragged out, lifted up and
laid upon the scat.
Of course I Hpent the night in the
cells, lor il L could have procured bail to
any amount it would not hav# been
accepted.
Not only was I charged with the-most
terrible of all crimes, but the charge was
supported by prima facie evidence that
looked practically conclusive. The
handcuffs had been found in my pocket,
and I was accused of procuring the
oscope from justice of the notorious
Maria S , the w'&' of a member of
the Nihilist inner Circle, then serving a
lifts sentence in Siberia.
No fewer than four murders had been
traced to her, and now I was charged
with complicity in a fifth, that of a
well known English detective who had
sought to make a brilliant coup by taking
her alone.
She seemed to have the power of fas
cinating meu with her beauty till they
became her slaves, and then striking
them dead by some terrible and myster
ious agency that left no trace savo death
behind it.
There is no need to dwell on the hor
rors of the time that followed my arrest.
Everything that money and skill could
do for mo was done, but I was com
mitted for trial on the circumstantial
evidence to answer the charge of mur
der.
While I lay in jail awaiting my trial
the search for Marie S became an
absolute hunt to death.
Despite all this, so perfect was her
skill iu disguise, aud so unlimited her
fertility of resource, that she might have
evaded pursuit after all, had it not been
for one of thoso slips tint the cleverest
of criminals seem to make sooner or
later.
A smart young chemist's assistant, nt
11 fashionable watering place, one even
ing on thu pier made the acquaintance
of it very pretty girl, who said that she
was studying chemistry (or tho science
ami art examinations.
This turned the conversation oil chem
icals, and she ended by askiug him to
(;et her a quantity of a very poisonous
substance which she wanted for an ex
periment, and which sliu could not buy
became she was a stranger iu the town.
Thu chemist's assistant was a sharp
young fellow, and he saw thu chemical
she asked tor w*» not iu thu syllabus of
the science and art department.
lie tolil his employer of tho occurrence
the next day, and iu thu evening took
the girl some crystals of a harmless salt
which resembled what shu had wanted
somewhat closely,
"This is not what I asked for," she
said, as shu lojked into tbe packet.
"No, you can't make prussiu acid out
of that,mi'«, but it's -iter to play with,"
coolly replied the youth, and as bespoke
a man wlio had been leaning over the
rail of the pier a few yards away moved
silently up behind thu girl, pinioned her
units to lur side and held her down to
thu scat.
Tne detective i-tlled a cab on the es
ptenade, and thu three got in and drove
to thu pollcu station, pulling up the win
do vs to avoid any possible obsuvatiou
as thuy went through thu streets.
When the cab luaclte I thu station
thcru was no sign or sound of niovt uieut
iii iide it. Thu t ibman got down an>l
opened the door, and as he did so lie
-Uugeii I back aud lull gasping for
breath to the pavement.
lii.tdu thu .ab Mary H *»t with
I Iter two wt uld becaptors—de tI, and Ml
i the face of each corpse there was the
•auie espres»iou that there was on the
■ lusturus of the dead man who was takeu
nit ol the carriage at I'addiugtou.
min a the clothing Ol Ma i« rt —»
mini! to U searched lite mystery was
--olvd by the 1181 ivjiy of one of the
i most internally iii .uiiiom contrivance*
that have over seived the purpose of
luulder. inside tliu drees, just above the
i waistband on the right baud side, were
found two small rubber ball pumps, such
as are used for ordinary spray producers.
From these two tubes led up to a bottle
suspended round the neck.
This had two compartments and two
necks closed by rubber coiks, through
which ran thin tubes, which ended in
the mouths of the two golden serpents
coiled in the form of n brooch.
The horrible apparatus was so arranged
that, on working the ball pumps by
pressing the right arm against the sido
two sets of vapors could be ejectel from
the serpents' mouths. These jots when
united formed what was practically a
vupor of prussic acid, which would be
blown directly in the face of any one
within a couple of feet of the brooch,
and would of course kill them almost in
stantly.
To the wearer of tho brooch there
would bo little or no danger, provided
she h<sld her breath for a couple of min
utes and moved quickly away, as tho
gas mixes very rapidly with the air and
is soon lost. In a confined ppaco like the
cab the atmosphere would soon bo so
saturated that it would be death to
breathe it.
All this was, of course, told to me
after my release, which was effected im
mediately after tho mystery was cleared
up.—Sheffield Telegraph.
Detecting Ilad Coins.
"Here's the way wo test coins in tlie
Treasury." And the expert swiftly
poised the dollar piece horizontally on
the top of his forefinger, holding tho
thumb a quarter of an inch away from
it and gave it a brisk tap with another
coin. A clear, silvery ring sounded out.
"Good, but here; listen;" and he re
peated the operation with another coin
that gave out a dull, heavy clink that
ceased almost as soon as it began.
"Type metal aud lead; moulded, too.
That is a wretched counterfeit." "How
do you tell that it was moulded?" lie
held tho two coins so that tho light
struck on their edges. "Just compare
the reeding, will you, or milling, as
most people call it. Iu this genuine
coin this is very clear aud sharp cut; in
the counterfeit it is coarse and dull.
That is because moulded iustead of be
iug stamped in cold metal, like tho
Government coins." Why do the coun
terfeiters not use the same cold process?"
"It costs too much and makes too much
noise. Witli a mould, you sge, a coun
terfeiter can carry on his work iu a gar
ret, and if a policecnau comes in he can
shy the whole outfit out of the window.
But it takes great power to run a die.
Still some high flying counterfeiters do
use them, and their work is usually
harder to detect, though it is never so
perfect as that of the Government Mint."
"What is the surest test for counterfeit
coin for popular use?" "The looks of
tho reeding, as ! waa telling you—tho
milling, by the way, is on the face of
the coiu, and not ou tho edge, as most
people think. That's tho surest and
easiest thing, but of course other tests
have to be used, especially for weight
and thickness. A little scale for weight
and measure is the handiest thing to set
tle that. Then, for plated ciin, a drop
of acid squirted on tho edge where the
plating wears most will chow up the
base metal in a hurry." "What acid do
you use?" "For gold coin a mixture of
strong nitric acid 6 J drams, muriatic
acid fifteen drops, ami water five drams,
is used; for silver, twenty-four grains of
nitrate of silver and thirty drops of ni
tric acid, with one ounce of water. One
drop is sufficient. If the coin is heavily
plated we scrape it a little before put
ting on the acid."—Springfield Ropub.
licau.
He Makes Cjclones.
Professor Douglass has succeeded in
manufacturing miniature cyclones and
tornadoes by means of electricity, thus
proving tho electrical character of tho
"prairie terrors." Iu carryiug out his
plans he susi>ended a large copper plate
by silken threads and charged it from a
battery, lie then used arsenious acid
gas, whereupon the combination of gas
and electricity could bo seen hanging
from the uuderside of tho plate in tho
form of a perfect fuuuel-shaped cyclouo
cloud. When everything was ready,
tho Profosior swung tho plate and the
miniature cyclone to and fro across a
table litere I with matches, pieces of
paper, pens, pencils, etc. The lighter
objects were instantly sucked up, the
heavier scattered in all directions. Tho
effects were exactly those of destructive
cyclones. There curious experiments
explain cyclonic phenomena. Low
clouds become charged witli electricity,
dosccud aud form a couuecliou with tho
caith. Then a violent electrical com
motion ensues, finally settling iuto u
whirl which continues until an electric
equilibrium is established.—St. Louis
Republic.
|,el I handed "suddenly.
Three years ago a young lady of Fall
Itiver, Mass,, was hit ou the left side of
the head by a falling sign as she was
walking almig a street iu Boston. This
was followed by a brain fever.
After some weeks she was as well iu
iiiiud aud b >dy as ever, but from aright
handed person she had become so left
handed that she could neither cut, saw
nor write with her right hand, but
! louud it easy to dc all tliese things will
her left.
Iter right hand was just about as use
ful a* her left ha I been before she was
I hurt. What is strange u that, with so
recent a e i HI <e in tho use of her lunds,
sliu never makes an awkward motion,
aud is as graceful in the use of hul left
j baud as if sue bad been boru lefthaude i.
' —Boston Post.
To Utilise Itvlierja.
A com pan y ha< been org mlxeit iu
Sewfouiidlaud to gather ice from ice
i hergs for the use of ice consume*). lie
' ehiui iy ha< been perilled loi cutting
! in# from bergs, aud the airival of a
•learner load is reported at I'llluy's let
j aud. The ice is said to IMI much purer
and harder than that hsive.su- i lt*ni
<tremus aud pou Is, and a Uigu duniiu |
| fur it U eijHrtJied. New Voia Wo»U.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The solnr system has twenty moons.
A Cincinnati doctor recommends eat
ing lemons for rheumatism.
Chewing gum's main component, gum
chicle, is the sap of sapodilla, a Mexican
tree.
The great Italian warships are 400
feet long, with a beam of seventy-live
feet.
A man obtains his miximum weight at
forty years of age, and a woman at iifty
years.
The human skin is exactly like that
of a fish, as it is covered with minute
scales overlapping each other.
Tho right side of the body perspires
more than the left, and the palm of the
hand four times more than tlio skin of
the chest.
A spermaceti candle consuming 120
graitu per hour, or at the rate of two
graius per minute, will give an illumina
tion of one standard candle.
M. Darneny has taken successive
photographs of the lips of a speaker, so
that on arranging them a deaf mute,
able to read from the motiou of the lips,
can understand them.
A new islet has been pushed above the
surface of the Caspian, near Baku, Rus
sia. It is three and a half miles from
shore, measures 175 by 100 feet, and
rises about twenty feet above the water.
There is said to bo a volcanic area
forty miles square in extent in Lower
California that is a veritable tire land,
livery square rod of the territory is
pierced by a boiling spring or spouting
geyser.
The soldering of aluminium, which
has long been a difficult problem, has
been recently solved. By sprinkling the
surfaces to be soldered with chloiide of
silver, and melting down, the soldering
is effected simply and satisfactorily.
Dr. Peters, the African explorer, has
discovered enormous saltpeter beds be
tween Mount Kilima-Njaro and the vol
cano Donjo Ngai. The whole great ter
ritory between Kiiiiua-Njaro an 1 Donjo
Nyai is said to be one great salt pete:
bed.
Food for cattle is scarce in Norway
and a winter diet of cows in some parts
of the country is said to be a mash of
cod fish heads. The milk of cows so fed
has an unpleasant taste of co l-tiver oil,
but is thought to be a valuable drink for
consumptive patients.
When alternating currents arc seat
through tho human body the physio
logical effects increase in severity with
au increase in the current strength, ac
cording to Professor E.lwic J. Houston.
With current strengths greatly in excess
of those employed in electrotherapy, addi
tional dirts are produced, and a tonic
contraction' T>( the muscles follows.
Moreover, in such cases the severity of
the physiological effects is increase I by
the high potential of the break-iuducel
discharge.
The World's Largest Active Volcano.
Hawaii is chiefly famous for its volca
noes, says tho Ariatic tjuarterly. Kil
auea, the largest active volcino in tho
world, lies oti the sido of the mouutain
Mauna Loa, at an elevation of four thou
sand feet. We usually think of an ele
vation as a cone, but Kilauea is rather a
great sunken pit, in the midst of a vast
desolate plain which slopes up geutly to
tho summit of the mountain. It is a pit
of iiD less than nine miles in circumferanco
and the area of its lowest level is six
square miles. The level varies; but it
is at present six hundnd feet below the
surrounding country, anil is reached by
a steep descent down the sheer face of a
precipice, which extends right around
the crater, anil, as it were, walls it in.
Within the crater, toward its southern
end, is an inner crater, with one or more
lakes of tire, called Halemaumau, or
llouso of Kverlastiug Burnings, which
constitute the true chimney of tlie vol
cano. Hero Kilauea exhibits its cease
less activity. In tho outer crater occa
sional graud eruptions occur, but signs
of the slu nberiug forces below are ever
present iu the form of blowiug coiies and
steaiu cracks, varying iu size from nar
row clefts to great fissures, from which
issue puffs and clouds of steam, fumes of
hot poisonous gases, and, from some,
liquid lava. The general bed is made
up of countless lava flows, of a variety of
forms and contortions difficult to do
scribe. At times it is surrounded by a
circle of crags, thrown up from tho la\»
iu a molten stale .Mid solidified as they
rose. They tower above tho level of the
outer basiu to the height of 100 to tl'lo
feet. From the top ouo giuei down
ward iuto a sea of liquid fire. —Boston
Transcript.
Corcan Hospitality.
In the matter of hospitality wo might
learn much from the Coroans, who ap
pear iu tho following story to keep alive
tho ancient uotiou that nothing should
be too good for the str mger within their
gates. When Admiral Shufeldt wont to
the hermit Nation to arrange for a treaty,
Mt.ts Shuleldt missed a valuable bracelet,
thu t tie ft of which was duly reported to
the proper authorities. Huspiciou rested
ou two uatives, who weie taken before
the tribunal aud subjected to a rigorous
eiauiitialiou. The oilLials found that
no uicriuiiuating uvidonce could be ob
tained against the inspected culprits, aud
informed Mis* Hhuieldt of the 'act, but
added, iu a spirit of courtesy, "If madam
wiahes, however, we will at once cut ol!
the heads of both men.Boston Trail*
•crlpl.
lluit Ear I'lillin; llifaii.
Auciently, iu itiauy parts of Frat.ee,
when a »ale ol laud took place, It was
the custom to have twelve adult wit
nesses accompanied by twelve little bo)s,
and » huii the price of the laud was paid,
and its suriender took place, the ears of
ti.e hvys were pulled, aud they were
beatvu severely, MI that tile paiu thus is*-
I'. ii led should make au impression upon
iheir memory ■ aud, if requited after
ward, they might hear witness hi the
sals. —New V <i» World*
Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 81.25 after Three Months,
THE MARKETS OF HAVANA.
UNiaUE SIGHTS IN THE METROP
OLIS OF CUBA.
Produce Carried to Market on Mule
Hack— 'i'lie Hucksters and Then
Wares—Milk Dealers.
"7T" MONG the most interesting
/\ sights of a unique and inter
eating city are the markets ol
/Havana. A visit to them helps
the stranger to the better understanding
of the methods of life not only of the
city people but of the country dwellers
as well, and shows strikingly the curious
mixture of races that goes to make up
the population. There are three large
markets, each one occupying a huge low
stone building plastered on the outside,
the manner in which, most of the build
ings of Havana are constructed, and
constituting a block by itself. Ap
proachiug the market during the busy
hours of the morning we rtucl the streets
on every side almost blocked by hcavily
ladened mules, just in from the country,
carrying produce of every sort. The
roads throughout the island are so bad
that almost all heavy load'', except sugar
caue and the huge casks of sugar and
molasses, are carried in this way.
Panniers made of very coarse bagging,
or woven from straw, or of palm fiber,
are fastened upon either side of the
mule, and then tilled with merchandise
until the mule is almost hidden from
sight. In this way almost every sort of
fruit aud vegetable is 'carried, also
cocoanuts, corn-fodder, live chickens,
live pigs, cans gfmilk an d whatever else
the country may send to supply the
town. Corn-fodder is ono of the prin
cipal articles of this cummerce, as it is
almost the only feed that is used for
the horses and cows kept in the city. It
grows all the year through, rarely attains
a height of more tliaa four feet, and is
cut when the grain if hardening. Theu
it is tied in bundles aud bound ou mules
until nothing but the nose aud tail of
the animal can be seen, and so brought
into market.
Tho hucksters and traffickers who
come with the mules aro as varied and
curious as the wares they bring. There
are Cubans and Spaniards of tho poorer
class, Indians, Coolies and G.injivos—
the native men of the mountains. They
are a ragged, dirty, uncouth lot, shoeless
and hatless, sometimes tramping along
beside their loads, and again mounted
upon the very apex of the crowded pan
niers. It may be seen at a glance, not
only from their own poverty-stricken
look but also from the leanness of their
beasts, that they are wretchedly poor.
A visit to their homes would still further
emphasize this fact, as there are tew
poorer habitations known to civilized
niau than the p.alm-b irlc cabins of these
Cuban siuall-farmers. Hut they are
good-natured and apparently happy. On
arriving at the market they are noisily
busy for an hour unloading their mules
and arranging their wares for sale. Or
anges are poured from the panuiers into
large, flat baskets, until ono wonders
that they could have held so many. The
baskets, holding perhaps a bushel aud a
half, are lifted upon tho head—the fa
vorite way hereof carrying all burdens
and taken into the market. Then there
are pineapples and plantaius and ban
anas, as plentiful as apples or potatoes
with ui at home; these are all ridicu
] lously cheap, a dozen tine oranges for a
dime, a good pineapple for tive cents, 01
the very best for ten, aud as many ban
anas as you care to ci.ry tor a dime.
Toe potatoes here aro quite as tine as
oue would see in any Northern market.
Them are also those other tropical fruits,
sapotas, sapoditlas, anil some whose
names 1 could not easily ascertain, curi
ous looking, nriuy of them with rough
brown coats, all of them sweet aud, to a
Northern palate, somewhat insipid. In
midwinter there is in tho vegetable
booths everything that wo have iu mid
summer, new com, celery, lettuce, oni
ons, tomatoes, artichokes, etc.. aud there
are some curious looking messes, ready
cooked, of which tin odor is enough for
us. It goes without saying that there is
dirt everywhere, for these people aro not
at all cleanly, when judged from the
American standpoint.
The interior of tho market is given up
mainly to the sale et things eatabiu. Iho
outer portions, fronting upon the streets,
aro tilled wila booths of various sort*
where one may buy a thuusau i things of
little value, and hardly anything of real
worth. One may buy poor candies,
flowers made into gaudy bouquets, imi
tation jewelry, cheap tovs, brilliantly
colored pictures and books with strik'
iugly illustrated covers, deealcouiauia
supplies—this seems to bo a favorite
decorative aft--cheap little wooden
statuettes of the saints, in faet anything
aud eveiything that is calculated to catch
the eye aud tho money of the ignorant
aud unwary, There is uiiicu noise aud
chattering wherever two or more are
gathered together, or where even the
smallest commercial transaction is iteiiig
conducted. Tuu people, though most
of them are Pressed iu rags, show soiuo
bit of color that holps to enliven the
scene. Old eroues, perfeot wltflhes iu
form and feature, hobble about idling
herbs, charm* and lottery tic.»ols thi
uarneil sit stolidly behind counters
whereon are »howu delicately carved bits
of ivory and tluely worked b uos of
t.c itcd woods.
I'.io milk ilnilur U about lh>< only
iiu ri limit u< 4uy aon wli'i onuwu Ik>
found 111 Ibo iiurkcl. It It Itv I* j»wl
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NO. 4V).
X WOULDN'T, VOUNO MAN.
Von can marry a woman with plenty of
gold—
I wouldn't if I were you—
She is haughty and proud, and her lips aro
cold —
I wouldn't if I were you. ».
True love alone can the heart assuage,
And to live ono's years in a gilded cage S
Would make of life a long, dull page—
I wouldn't if I were you.
You can do all sorts of foolish things—
I wouldn't if I wore you—
For a lyiug part no pleasure brings—
I wouldn't if I were you.
Oh, who would forfeit tho depth of bliss
That always eornes in an honest kiss
'Tweeu a faithful youth and a trusting
miss—
I wouldn't if I wore you.
You can cheat, and steal, and grasp, and
clutch —
I wouldn't if I were you—
For wealth brings never a joy to such—
I wouldn't if I wore you.
And better than gold is a loving friend.
Whose heart will a ray of sunshine lend.
You may strive, it you will, for a selfish
end —
I wouldn't if I were you.
You may, betimes, grow strangely blind —
I wouldn't if I were you—
To the debt you owe to all mankind—
I wouldn't if I were you.
For all who breast life's troubled wave
Have a common birth and a common grave;
You may praise the king and spurn the
slave—
I wouldn't if I were you.
You may be tempted to quit the truth—
I wouldn't if I were you—
That a mother's love has taught your
youth—
I wouldn't if I were you.
And the angels will bless you while you
sleep,
And they'll kiss your honest lips and keep
Sweet watch o'er your slumber soft and
deep—
I wouldn't if I were you.
—Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Tribune.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A check mate—The stub.
A green grocer—The oue who frusta.
—Puck.
Tho handle to our name is tho tiling
by which pride lifts us up.
It doesn't tnko a bit of meanness out
of a rascal to polish him.—Ram's Horu.
In the bright lexicon of matrimony,
the base ball playor is not always a good
catch.—Puck.
A woman's glory is in her hair, but it
is a good plan to tie it up when cooking.
—Texas Sittings.
Tho man who never attempts to sing
at any other time will break out iu a
picnic wagon.—Atchisou Globe.
"I've lost fivo pounds of flesh on your
account," sighed tho butcher, as a dog
ran oil with a steak.—Texas Sittings.
Every man's ideal woman is one who
would believe ho caught whales in the
river if he told her so.—Atchison Globe.
It was a much too sudden move;
For just before ho spoke
The words that told her of his lovo
The hammock broke.
—Judge.
"There goes Blobski, the boomerang
I poet." "How did he get that name J"
' "Hy his verses always coming back to
| him."—Philadelphia Record.
A contemporary lays down a number
! of rules of aetiou in case of one's cloth
ing taking tire. One of tlicm is "to keep
I as cool as possible.—Tit Hits.
He "That's that ass, Bound arson,
isn't it* He should have been drowned
jas a puppy." She—"There's time
J enough yet, isn't there?"— Punch.
l)o not judgo from outside appear
| ances. The football looks plump and
1 fair proportioned, but there is nothing
in it but wind. —Uostou Transcript.
A victim o'erworke I
l-'or whom hearts should grow teudor
Is tho lemon that's uswl
Hy the lemonade vender.
Washington Star.
Hudson Rivors—"Chicago has souio
very tall buildings, has it not?" "C. H.
Aequo—"Has it! You have to lie flat
ou your back to see out of towu."—New
York llorald.
Dog Fancier—"l tell you, gents, that
dog o' mine Is au intelligent critter."
Synnok—"Possibly; but you wouldn't
think it, judging from the company ho
keeps."—Uostou Tiauscript.
A mystery on a sij>u at a South Kud
provision store: "Hoof is very high,
our prices are the same," The questiou
is, tloes the sign attract or repot cus
tomers? Uostou Transcript.
lie —"1 never heard a eouundrum yet
that eould trouble lue for a moment,"
Shu (admiringly)—" Can you always
answer them, ttieu?" lie —"Oa, no I 1
always give ilium up,"--Soumrvilto
Journal.
Fred—"Tuere seems to be a lot more
fuss made of Mni A.'s.iuniug than Viisi
K 's, aud I aiu sure Mis* K lias by far
the richer voice." Jack "Oh, yes, but
Miss ,V. has by tar 'lie richer lather."
Pick Me Up.
Paterfamilias-*"What have you to
show as the means of support in; lay
daughter if you wed her, Mi . Snippy I
Mr. Snippy (with obvious embarrass
liieuti—" Kr—all--l eould tell lH<tt*r i(
_*r— Iliad semi youi latest will."—
Clikoag > News Keeord.
Srcdv Party (contemplating himself iu
a pix'kel mirror) "Here I am waning
the luiols of a bank manager, the
trousers of a landed proprietor, a baron'*
coat and vest, and even a count s hat,
ami in spile of all that I look like a
tr i nip,Pliegeude Hlaetler.
Nellie Mtiiiiuieigirl -"We've t»eeu en
ga,.>>d iivel a acek, lie >rge, dear 1 , Won't
you think we ought to break UI" tteoigo
liidemaud ~"tireak the engagement!
Why, love, ate you tired of uie au snout"
>• N mi} but dou't you think I ought to
give the otUei gifts some chaucc at yuit,
string you're the euljt usaa hwei">«»
Uttlvu M«er».