SULLIVAN JULFE REPUBLICAN. w M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL, X. Tw irff > 7l'll <>l ill' Staf** and Tcrri i'if ' t hnra i "itj education law*. It - itimotf I that fttlly two-third* of <•.' «(.o!. I'f.-.'lßf ptlMk fnofiey held t»j( tfi" funk* floe* not bear m lw«'« ______________ M/nlc <f Jfoffmeyr, one of the mo»t |, /liii' ikk in Month Africa, ha* #■mnuii'lii l a l.efcc agitation against ((Mtwd af the C,»oe, I" Ibe I ittfrt cen*»M bulletin fli' native population incri;a«e(l twenty f bfi <(c i > t, Mft'ti HS't and 1890, the (irti'iyu tWrty.«ii£ht j«ir cent. and ttw t 'AotvA Mfdsn per cont, 'I • (~<fi«h of our <1 ay is emmidered tn ,i lii -Si in' orit.v a!mo«t perfect, alike for 'l,' ; ifp'i*c of fii< oritur, the phllovi fiiitr, I'm Ittefurer Mini tho poet, The iiii»< <I '. , i • ii'l to l)« spoken HI Lineiilnshiie, 'I ,Sn 'il/in f'mpcror, in order to nr. in. . i .-I; t if li*pl«y of loyalty, • I tin- *iim of |Jv< (I >rin*, eipial to nbont two do 'ii i, which ha'l been be <|»i' TFLI'-'J IO In* nnj"<ty by a poor pea*- Mf, 112 ' 'intly li'i'M" I in the Austrian province of i iffiiola. 'I I i I' ■ ' m Hi ini 1 would like to have I. ini'» 11 i>irt, »'soiling fl»h alive in tli" I II I !*=, Intro IIK'M'I Into tills fnmtrj, "Our fashion of soiling fl*h In he <»» irU"f, 'it toy* 112 "would till a German ivitli (II- ' i-l. In the German «HiM ff*f> i< aliii"<i Invariably «oli| alive.'' 'l'h" i ijii I ;• • .vtli of the hahtt of *o hr.i'f Kfl temper nice i«, in the estima tion of tin Chicago Hi-nil I. one of ;ho oliurncicriiiti' if the American railway nerve!, I.(' Hi' >f i'»('».«if nit* hec lining more and oi lie the ci" iptilon, althoug'.i It i« «til 110 lie the ruin in the Knglbh pi i vii -, It -v»* -i i'l ijnet for comment 'n m I', II. mli raii.vay publication recent- I i;,, 1 i'i.- .'I II) IH'I ir< I < employed in cirri -inu the grade of the Great West (■in Kiiir.il weir not allowed to refresh tli<.iii -i Ivi-« during working hours with i»nythinn •iron/er than oitinrml water. lliiit*y M. Stanbv, in one of his spii i !ies wlillo Mtiifi llu for a seat in the I'r i <!i Parliament, said, "Though ol British hirth iiml parentage, leave spent the yfi iirr part of my lile in trivel and i splofnti "i In foreign lan Is, and when I returned two years ago to live in Kng. land I wic> a MtUfllldd eiti/.m of the I die.l Slates, hut in all my wandering* I have "( i LL no power so great and so be neficent as the British Kit pi re, and I feel that my birthright of ciii/.enabip wiii a privilege which I could no longci foi" {o. I therefore lesumcd the alle (liiutri of lily 11 fill and resolved that if i V I I . mid 'l'fve Knghiud aguln in any way there 'miilil ho no barrier to over come My one mastering desire is for 11.. ii.l nt en me.., the spread, the dignity, the ii- efiiiiieNi of I lie llritish Kmpire." Wldospr. ad public interest is being ai'in "d mi the sulijeetof improving tho puhlie hhihways of our country. Col onel Albert A. Pope, of Boston, has given a great impetus lo the ipiettion by publishing in pamphlet form "A Me morial lo ('on ress on the Subject of a Comprehen ive Kxhiiiit of Hills, Their i'n i:ruction and Maintenance at the World (,'oliiinblau Kxpoiitlon." Tho Memorial contains letters from I'res lent II irrison, members of tho (-nbliiel and a large nuinbor of other pr.iniiueiit men in every section of the i mnti'v. all liiir dy commendiitory of tho oi"i'. 'iien! for the iinprovemeutof public i l l- hron h . it the United States. Be -ides the in letters extracts are given from editorial articles favoring nad reform in leading papers all over the Union. Those extract* show that the pro« every where in in lino with the laudable ef forts to improve and maintain public road* ait over thn land. The editor of a New York weekly pnper has offered to pay Professor Belli iipuelli'i expenses to this country and back in order to give tho distinguished M'ienti*t an opportunity to peep at Mars thrmi h the great Lick telescope in <' tlifornin. It is generally agreed, re marks tho Chic i o Herald, that the most important of the professor's discoveries have been continued by the recent ob servations of other astronomers. Tho Mr,io e thing about it is that Schiapar illi has been able to see more with a teleseopi ( »112 , t eci'tain sir.e than others have di-lin,'uishcd with larger instru ments. 'l'll.swill be popularly explained by saying that he has very bright eyes, 'the professor himself says that he has iteeii observing that one planet for many year-, and that one's eyes derive greater distinguishing power by becoming ac customed t" the light of a particular star. Whichever theory is true, if Schi npareili comes to loo;, through the biek telescope he ought to be able, under ftIVM I'l e OM litiont, to tell us something . He -v übonl the surface ot Mars. THE MAYING TIME. I flieV,. click, click,' goes the mowing ma- I ehine. With its shioMs of iron and falchions keon, An f'Vcr the plain it sjieeils, I.ike a pruu'l ti'iiirnphal car, f.ikna chariot of war. SVith foaming, panting steads. The field with a thrill of foar is stirred The startle I lioholink has heart The warning and goes in quest ' if Ills mate; together they fly, N'IW circling low. now high Atiove their rush-hidden nest. ftot. the iron Oppressor's work is wrought Willi a swift career that spareth naught. And the toll gras*, purple-crownod, And the flowers in fragrant bloom lio down in common doom And lie withere lon tho ground. Thus the sons of toil their tasks fulfill, Lightened l>v man's inventive skill; But a spirit of sweetn -ss bath flown, That haunted the green highways Ol the old time haying days, Kre the iron-wrought mower was known. When the summer days with song were blithe, And tin sturdy mower whet his scythe, And the best man, never loth, Led the haying crew witli prido Through the field's sweot-seented tido, Turning the double swath. Closii followed by boys, bare-foot an I brown, •Joyously sprea'ing the winrows down; Thus the toiler* from early morn Cheerily filled each hour Kver watchful for a Sign of shower, Till t io sound of tho dinner horn. Then tho bobolink might safely rest; For a shield of grass to mark its nest lly the mower was kindly spared, And he stays Ins brawny arm, Jrf'st some nestling suffer harm, For they his friendship shared. We will honor with song our modern ways, Hut a dearer, tenderer, strain of praise Is echoed in memory's chine < if the days so glad and long, When tho hopes of youth were stron-', In the sweet old haying time. - St. Louis Republic. A FORTUNATE MISTAKE. / \ S Captain Sprowl !—threw iiis hat on the 1 iff?- 1 - ii* | bed and sat down in ji J lj his easy chair in the IST I -il* cabin he looked rue- K/J - - /if\ W' fully nt a neat pack- IM : I m\ age that lay on the / ' V table. I 1 "What a fool 1 Ml ~- - 1 was tc buy that," he /M - ,Jf 1 thought. "Oldsex-J / \ \ tant wai plenty good ■ I I*4 \ enough, though 1 Ji Nl had it nine years. ] ' Bought it in Liver- I pool wlieu I was second mate of the Julia | A. Smith. And now 1 have put out a inonth'a earnings for a new one. What I possessed me I don't know." And so the captain went on. Now, Captain Sprowl was not, as you 1 might think from the name, a bald J headed old man with bushy whiskers. No; names arc very misleading. In stead, he was tall and slender, with a j sandy mustache, nnd bad not a gray * hair in his head. Ho came from Maine, and although but thirty years old, he ! had been for six years captain or the ■ Kdna Dunn, now lying at Constitution ! wharf, in Boston, discharging her cargo of sugar. "Well," pulled the captain, "nothing to do now but to get rid of the old sex- i taut. I should go ashore next time if I ) lmd two sextants to navigate by. Must I woil; the old oil' on some landlubber or | somebody." The package was lying on an old news paper which ho had read through and I through on his last trip out. "The very thing!" said he. "I'll put I a notice in tho paper—'Sextant for sale, ! cheap,' and if somebody dou't bite at | it, I miss my guess." The next morning the only thing the captain could see in tho paper was this; j Sextant for sale by a ship captain; near- | lyii ew and in perfect, or lar; will be sold . cheap. Address I).. 41 Globe office. And now my story's begun. Etta Bourne had been at work in a millinery store in Boston for nearly two years. She and her older sister Annie had learned the trade with the village milliner down in Kennebunk. Hut Annie, who had long been the belle of the village, got married, and i Etta concluded to try her fortune in Boston. She was full of ambition. So it fell that in her two years in the millinery store she studied shorthand I and typewriting, with tho intention of j fitting herself to In. a confidential clerk. On Sunday she saw this advertise- ; mcnt: For Sale—Jones's Premier Typewriter at half price; been used less than u month; in ' perfect order. Address ()., 47 Ulobe office, | Etta Bourne, being a Maiue Yankee, knew a bargain when she saw it. She wanted to own a typewriter, aud so she j wrote a brief note addressed to "0., -17 Globe Office," asking where the machine ' could bo seen, and dropped it into the | letter box as she went to work Mouday morning. Now, I said at the beginning that the advertising clerk was to blame. Per haps the mistake was partly that of Etta j Bourne. At any rate it will never be j known. The clerk wa3 sorting tho replies and putting them in their apropriate boxes, j When he came to Etta Bourne's letter to - "O. 47," he read it "O. 41" and put it j ill the pigeonhole as such. That was a very, very little mistake, | of course, but you who have noticed . how things go in this world of ours have discovered that the most serious changes in the course of our lives como about ' from just such little happenings. For it was that very day that Captain Sprowl advertised bis sextant for sale. lAnd Captain Sprowl was "O 41." Now the tall captaiu was a very busy LAPOItTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1892. I man, and it was iate that afternoon be fore he went to the office to gather in j the replies from people who were anxious ' to buy a sextant. But the sextant market was apparent ly rather dull, for all the clerk could give him was one solitary letter. The captain tore the envelope open and tossed it aside. "I saw your advertisement in the Globe," read the captain. "I wish to buy a good second-hand machine of standard make, and if the one you offer is in perfect repair and the price is sat isfactory, perhaps we can trade. But I cannot give more than §SO, and if you ask more you need not reply to this. Send your address, stating where ma chine can be seen, to 11. E. Bourne, 450 Winter street." "Well," soliloquized tho captain, "I've jgot one answer, anyhow. But what does a woman want of a sextant— for this is certainly a woman's writing? She seems to be in earnest though. "And #5Ol Conscience 1 I never ex pected to get more than §25. Well, she'll have to come on board, I suppose, so I'll send her my address." And standing at the public desk he wrote; H. E. iiourne—Dear Miss: Yours in rc ply to in v advertisement in the Globe is at hand. Please call on mo aboard the bark Edna Dunn, Constitution wharf, between 3 nnd 9. Enwi.v K. SPROWL, Captain. The next afternoon about 4 o'clock a ! trim little figure walked rapidly over the rough planks of Constitution wharf. "It's a queer place to find a second hand typewriter," thought Etta Bourne, "but I suppose the captain got tired of it, or couldn't use it because the vessel pitched so, or something like that." She saw the gilt letters, "Eina Dunn." A fat, bald-headed man with a little gingham apron on looked out the door of a box-like home in the middle of the vessel. A broad plank extended from the wharf across the bulwarks. The man in ! the apron came forward. "I wish to see Captain Sprowl," said i she. | "Vis, mini. Come right aboard, niirn, on that there plank, mini. The c aptain j is down in his cabin, mini." Etta Bourne stepped hastily along the plank, and the stout cook, putting his broad palms under her elbows, lifted her lightly to the deck. "This way, mim," and he led her ; around to the after-compauiouway. They went down tho brass-railed j ! stairs, and as the cook knocked at the t door Etta noticed bow spick aud span I everything looked. I As a matter of fact the captain, in view of the lady's visit, had kept the cook scouring the wood and brasswork . all the forenoon. "Captain, sir, a lady wishes to see I ye." j The captain, with half an hour's work [in bis four-in-hand, bowed respect | fully. "I am Miss Bourne," begau Etta. "I j came in response to your advertisement in the Globe about a—" j "Yes, ma'am," said the captain, "this |is the place. Will you take a seat?" j As Etta sank into an easy chair she i glanced about her in astonishment. She j had no idea that these little low houses on ship's deck was so comfortable as ' this. Here was a dainty little sitting room, ! with a rich, soft carpet, a hanging lamp of elaborate desigu, .huge plush easy ; chairs and sofa, a pretty rattan rocker j and a table strewn with the latest I magazines. "I beg your pardon," said the tall Ciptain, who had been looking curiously ! it her; "but arc you not related to Miss I Annie Bourne, of Kennebunk?" I "Why, yes, indeed; she is my own | sister," answered Etta, with animation. "I used togo to school with her in I the old Berwick Academy,years ago; but j I didn't know she had a sister." "Oh, yes, I went to the academy my i self, but it was after she was graduated." "And was old Brown principal when : you were there?" I From this they went on for ten min ! utes, and each knew so many that the j other did that they soon became old ac | quaintances. j The captain at once noticed that she ' was a remarkably neat nnd pleasant little | woman, and Etta Bourne thought the ; captain a fine-looking man, tall and strong. "Well, Captain Sprowl," said she, finally,"l luusn't forget what I cauie lor. I believe you have a machine that you wish to sell?" "Why, yes," said the captain, won- I dering what on earth this attractive young woman could want of a sextant. "And how did you come to want to sell it," pursued she, woudering what use this sea-captain had for a typewriter. | "Well, the fact is," said the captain, j reddening a little. "I bought a new one tho other day when I really didn't need ; it, aud of course, I haven't, use for two. i i And," continued he, "since turn about i ! is fair play, I an> going to ask you what j j you want of one?" "To earn a living with," said she. 'i 'n looked puzzled as he went I into ...room to get the sextant. | lie lu.ii heard that women were becoming | j the rivals of men in almost every trade j and profession, and he vaguely wondered j ! if Miss Bourne was intending sometime j to become Captain Bourne. "Well," said he, coming back and j holding the sextant out towards her, "here it is. The ivory on the scale is a : little yellow, and the vernier glass has a | little crack across the other edge, but—" lie stopped. Miss Bourne was hold ing up her hands in amazement. "Why—why—what is this?" she J stammered. j "Why, it's a sextant," said the cap tain. "I thought you knew what that ' looked like." j "But there's some misunderstand | here. I don't have any use for a sextaut. It was a typewriter that I understood ! you had to sell." i "A typewriter," said the captain aston | ished in turn. "Why, no. Here's the ' advertisement," and he put the paper in j her hands. J Now, as I have said, Etta Bourne was a Maine Yankee, ami ir less than ten J seconds she had guesse* how the mistake occurred. "Well, now," said the captain. "I thought it was awful funny that a woman should want to buy a sextant. Now you have disappointed me, I don't see how I am going to sell it, unless I leave it at | the instrument maker's and let him get what he can for it." Oddly enough, from this point this story runs along so naturally that you can tell it yourself. The tall captain escorted Miss Bourne up-town, called on her two or three times while he was in port, corresponded with her when he was away, and in less than a year this notice appeared: Sprawl—'leurne—ln Kennebunk, Me., May 8, at the residence of the bride's parent?, Capt. K ivvin 11. Sprowl an 1 Henrietti E. Bourne. And now my story is done.—Boston Globe. The Sullen Hamster. As the squirrel was said by the old Norsemen to bring nil the uews of the animals to Thor, because he was the merriest and most sociable of beasts, so in the talk of the liussian peasants the hamster is the synonym for all that is sullen, avaricious, solitary and morose. Even in color he is unlike any other animal, being light above and dark be low. This gives the hamster somewhat the same incongruous appearance that a pair of black trousers and a light coat lend to a man; in other respects he is like a large, shaggy guinea pig, with very large teeth and puffy cheeks, iuto which he can cram a vast quantity ot rye or beans for transport. Each hamster lives in a targe, roomy burrow all by himself, in defense of which he will fight like a badger against any other hamster who may try to enter. Family life he wholly avoids, never allowing a female inside his burrow, but keeping her at a good distance ami mak ing her find her own living for herself and family. The last burden is, how ever, not a serious one, for by the time the young ones are three weeks old each discovers that family life is a great mis take and sets off to make a bachelor bur row for itself and save up beans for the winter. For, in addition to its other amiable qualities, the hamster has that of avarice in a marked degree, and heaps up treasures of corn, rye aud horse beans fai in excess of his own private wants for j the winter. Ilis favorite plan is to dig ! a number of treasure chambers, all com municating with a central guard room, in which the owner eats and grows fat until the hardest frosts begin, when he curls himself up to sleep until the spring. But this life of leisure? does not begin until the harvest has beau gathered. I While the crops are ripening, the hamsters work iueess ntly to increase I the>. hoards, and as much a3 three hun dred weight of grain and beaus have been takei from a hamster's burrow. After harvest the peasants often search with probes for the treasure chambers of the robbers, and during the preseut scarcity in Central Europe tliev will no doubt exact a heavy tribute from the hamsters' stores.—Spectator. The Power of Li^litniii?. Oil August 1, 184G, St. George's Church, Leicester, England, which was a new building, was entirely destroyed during a thunder storm. The steeple having been burst asunder, parts of it j , were blown to a distance of thirty feet i in every direction, while the vano rod : and top part of the spire fell perpeu- j dicularly down, carrying with them every j tloor in the tower, the bells and the works of the clock. The falling mass was not arrested until it arrived on the ground, under which was a strong brick arch, aud this also was broken by the blow. The gutters and ridge covering were torn up, and the pipes used to con- i vey the water from the roof were blown ! to pieces. Mr. Higliton calculated the { power developed in the discharge of the lightning which destroyed this church with some known mechanical force. He discovered that a huudred tons of stone were blown down a distauce of thirty feet in three seconds, and consequently a 12,220 horse power cugine would have been required to resist the efforts of this | single flash.—Scientific American. Apricot Paste. Apricot paste, known as Karnar el Dine, is, together with dried apricots, one of the principal exports from Damas cus. The fruit, when gathered, is crushed in a kind of large iron wire sieve, and the thick juice which results from this operation is collected in earth en vats, and then spread on planks cov ered with a layer of oil, where it is allowed to remain two days exposed to the air. At the expiration of this time the paste is removed and turned. On tlr: fourth day the paste is again re : moved, audit then has the appearance | of a band of leather, very thiu, and of a reddish-brown color, about a yard and a half long and half a yard wide. This is the finest quality of paste. The same operation is repeated onca or twice to obtain a second and third quality, each | time a little water being added to the | residuum of the former operation. The | | bands of paste are then folded so as to j form bundles of about five pounds weight, ( which are sold according to quality.— | Scientific American. Microscopic Picture ot tlio President. A microscopic pen picture of President Harrison by M. Diamond, an artist of New York, which is a marvel of in genuity, has been received at the Exec utive Mansion from the artist. The pic ture is about twenty-four by eighteen inches, and is an excellent likeness of the President. The face is surrounded by the American flag pendant on either side. The features, even to the ears, the ; flags, the body aud the buttons on the coat art all filled iu with extracts from speeches made by General Harrison dur- I ing his long public career. Those j speeches contain 11,000 words, and the I . artist fittingly characterizes them "a life I i history ofiGeneral Harrison."—Washing- ' ington Star. I j SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The average man has 2,304,000 pores fn his skin. About eight species of whale are known on the California coast. I An opal weighing one pound and a quarter has recently been taken out of an Idaho mine. The Ivrupp works in Essen, Germany, contain 2512 furnaces. These consume 1665 tons of coal aud coke daily. A horse will eat in a year nine times his own weight, a cow nine times, and an ox six times and a sheep six times. In speaking of the solidification of a body by cooling. Professor Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. San Francisco, Cal., has an earth quake-proof hotel. It is constructed of iron and in the form of two hollow squares, one within the other, arranged so as to biace each other. It is said that a natural deposit of a material capable of use as a polishing powder for metals has been discovered near Walcha, New South Wales, and that it is being introduced on the mar ket. Not earthworms but ants are the soil tillers of parts of Southern Africa. Ant hills exist bv millions, each covered by soil so fertile that a common saying is that an ox can be pastured on an an/ hill. Sleeping in the light of the moon when it is near the full is said to be in jurious, especially near the tropics. It has no effect where the direct rays do not fall on the head or eyes of the sleeper. Among birds that have the power of imitation the parrot is the best; but, as a matter of fact, its voice is decidedly inferior to that of the mynah, a species of starling. Curiously enough, the male bird speaks in a high, clear tone, like that of a child, while the female has a gruff voice. An English scientist has made a calcu lation about the time it will take to fill the world with all the people it will hold. The preseut population of the globe is supposed to be about 1,487,- 000,000, aud he astimates that the max imum of the inhabitants that can be sus tained on the entire land surface of the earth is 5,944,000,000, and that this figure will be reached A. D. 2072. The cablewav at the Deer Park group of mines near Descauso, Cal., was broken in a singular manner recently. It has a single span of 4450 teet. The tension is twenty ton, and the loads are 120-pound sacks of ore from the mines j on the mountain side to the mills below, j Just after an extra hard shake in the 1 series of cart' ii -ik-is there it parted. It is supposed that the vibrations, coming from each end of the line, met in the centre and caused the break. Newsboy Sympathy. A paralyzed newsboy sells papers from a wheel ciiair at the corner of Fifth ave nue and Twenty-third street, writes the New York coirespondent of the St. Louis Republic. Visitors fpm the West may have notice ! him, for he is a pathetic I object aud attracts much attention. His helplessness has aroused all the latent pathos iu hearts that beat beneath ragged | jackets in that neighborhood. A local | writer tells a pleasing anecdote concern ing him, which I reproduce - The newsboys all sympathize with i him. They help him fold and arrange his papers. On waim days they take turns fanning him, carry his little fold ing table and assist him in various ways. One day during the late hot spell a ragged urchin, with a bundle of papers under his arm, dirt-begrimed and carry ! ing a tin pail in his hand, walked up to ! the cashier's window in a store not tar { from whtre the cripple sits. Rapping on the window he attracted the attention of the cashier, and as he stood on his tiptoe he handed iu his pail, while a smile bewitching as any society belle is capable of, encircled his dirty face, dis playing a set of teeth pearly white and as beautiful as nature could form them. His largo, lustrous, sparkling black eyes caught hold of the cashier, and he said: "Say, mister, der latnc blokey what sells papers in de wagon ou der corner wants a drink of icewater." As the man who handles the cash passed out the pail of water the juvenile remarked: "Tanks, mister; you know der kid's awful lame and cau't walk." The New York newsboy is a rough, slangy, harum-scarum, devil-may -care and often mischievous individual, but generally his heart is in the right place. Vanderltilt's Way. A writer in the Figaro throws an in teresting light upon Mr. VanderbilCs method of buying pictures. The mil lionaire, it seems; went once to Meisson ier and asked him which of his works was, in his own opinion, his chef d'ouvre. Meissonier answered: "The Chess Play ers." "Whom does it belong to?" was Mr. Vanderbilt's next question. "To Herr Meyer, of Dresden," was the an [ swer. That very night Mr. Vanderbilt dispatched a secretary to Dresden, who went straight to Herr Meyer and de manded to know his price. ".$50,000," replied the owner, thinking that he had effectually frightened his interrogator. "I take it," said the secretary to the great astonishment of Herr Meyer, and take it he did.—Pall Mall Gazette. A Ileu's (Jueer Freak. Hop AVhitney, of Monroe, Gn., tells a strange story of animal life. A cat se lected the fodder loft as the home for her kitteus. A sitting hen was near her neighbor, and had the misfortune to be broken up. She at once ousted the cat from her bed and appropriated her three | kittens. When Hop went into the loft, | he was surprised to see the mammy cal j lyingwithout her kittens, aud when he | attempted to take the kittens from the lieu he found he had a considerable row ou 1 his hands.-—Atlanta Constitution, Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; $1.25 after Three Months. WONDERS OF HYPNOTISM. MARVELLOUS EFFECTS OF A PHY SICIAN'S EXPERIMENTS. Pain Entirely Subdued l>y the Foree ot Will Power—Active and Pas sive Patients. IN a very interesting paper on "Hyp notism and Mental Suggestion," in the Arena, Mr. B. O. Flower says: Dr. Hamilton Osgood related to ine many instauces where extraordinary cures have followed positive suggestion made to the patient when in a perfe3tly normal condition. As a rule, however, far more can be accomplished after the patient has been thrown into the hyp notic sleep, and it is this phenomenon and the result attending the same, which, if the reader will now follow me, I will describe as I personally witnessed it, some few weeks since, at the Home for Incurables, in the beautiful suburban town of Ashmont. During this visit Dr. Osgood hypno tized twelve patients. In each instance the experiment proved completely suc cessful. In many cases the patient yielded readily to the doctor's sugges tion; in others it required a few mo ments to bring the invalid's will en tirely under the domination of the phy sician's will, although it must be remem bered that in all instances the patients were hypnotized at their express desire. To me there was something thrilling, startling, and terrible in this spectacle of a human mind instantly yielding to a will more royal than his own; becoming a willing vassal, with cars attuned to no voice save the regal master whose slight est wish becomes absolute law. The general appearatic of a subject in the hypnotic trance is that of a natural sleep, although, sometimes, when in a profound slumber, one is reminded of a patient under the influence of ether. There are present, however, these pe culiarites in the hypnotic trance: The subject, if in a profound sleep, is absolutely at the command of the operator; at a suggestion from him the entire body is as insensible to pain as if perfectly etherized; at his command the body instantly becomes as rigid as if all life had departed: at his suggestion the patient sees visions of the operator's creatiug and hears, perchance, the rav ishing strains of celestial melody. In this realm of dreams he banquets and revels, while perhaps a limb is being amputated. And yet at the voice of tL< intelligent operator he instantly return* to a normal condition, provided the operator himself never for a moment doubts his ability to awaken the subject. As I noted before, some patients yield much more readily than others. It was indeed interesting and curious to wit ness the subtle and inherent traits of dif ferent patient , ".n in the moment when the patient's will-power was mo mentarily yielding more and more to the hypnotizer. Thus the lirst subject hyp notized by Dr. Osgood had expressed I his desire to be so treated, and has describe 1 at length the trouble from which lie was suffering. I really saw that ho was one of those numerous individuals who derive their greatest joy from fault-finding and complaining—a chronic objector—and I observed with considerable curiosity the doctor's method of putting him to sleep. As I had anticipated, he involuntary resisted the physician's suggestions for a minute or two. For example, after he had been partially hypnotized, Dr. O. said; "Your eyes arc heavy. It is difficult for you to raise your lids." He, with an effort, kept his eyes open for a moment, and later, when the doctor said, "You cannot open your eyes," he strove to do so and a gleam of triumph lit his coun tenance when he succeeded, though the heavy lids fell back almosl instantly; and when the affirmation was repeated he made no furthur effort, being already in a deep sleep. The next subject was a passive, mild mannered man. The doctor did not eveu look him in the eye, but simply suggested sleep most positively to him, after which he lightly touched his brow between the eyes, and he was in a deep slumber, from which he did not awake until a half hour later, when the doctor loosened the bonds by a single word. In another ward a lady asked to be hypnotized; her stomach was causing her considerable pain. She had been hypno tized several times before, deriving great benefit from tins treatment. Dr. Osgood requested her to look him in the eyes for a moment. He then positively com-' manded her togo to sleep; to keep her mind passive; think only of sleep, and go to sleep. In half a minute she was in a profound slumber. He took a sharp instrument in his hand and pricked her face and hands several times with it, but there was nothing to indicate that she felt in the least degree any sensation whatever. The doctor then suggested that her stomach would be entirely relieved, on her waking; and placiug his hand over her stomach for a moment, he added: "You are now experiencing a warm sensation; the blood is now called to the stomach, and when you wake all pain will have disappeared. Now sleep on until I call you." lie then passed into some other wards, where some other wo men were hypnotized, two of whom re mained sleeping only a few minutes after the doctor left. As all persons who arc acquainted with hypnotism know, there are different stages. In some cases, the doctor in forms me, lie may hypnotize a person and keep them entirely under hypnotic influence as long as present, but as soon as he leaves they begin to awake. In other cases a profound sleep follows sug gestion, and the patient does not arouse until the doctor breaks the spell by a word. The Salvation Army are about to build a headquarters for Ireland at Belfast, to cost $40,000. Clusters of clover, if hung in a room and left to dry and shed their perfume through the air, will drive away dies. NO. 51. OI.D JOHN HENRY, Old John's jes' made o' the commonest stuff— Old John Henry. He's tough, I reckon, but none too tough— "Too much, though, 's better than not enough," Says Old John Henry. He does his best and when his best's bad, He don't fret none, nor he don't get sad- He simply 'lows it's the best he tiad— Old John Henry. His rtoetern's jes' o' the plainest brand — Old John Henry. "A sinilin' face and a liearty hand ■S a religion 'at all folks understand," Hays Old John Henry. He's stove up some with the rheumatiz. And they hain't no shine on them shoes o" his, And his hair ain't cut, but his eye teeth is— Old John Henry. He feed hisself when the stock's all fed— Old John Henry. And "sleeps like a babe" when he goes to bed, ; "And dreams o' heaven and home-made bread," fiays Old John Henry. He ain't refined as heort to bo, To fit the statutes of poetry, Nor his clothes don't fit him, but he fits me— Old John Henry. —James Whitcomb Riley. IIUMOIt Of THE HAY. The barber is poor indeed who doesn't even hone his razors.—Elmira Gazette. Prudence in a plume dropped from the wing of some past folly.—Texas Siftings. Money talks; but it is frequently a trifle deficient in its grammar. —Wash ington Star. Do not expect togo to the top of the spire in politics unless you are willing to play the weather cock.— Galveston News. "Gentlemen," said the auctioneer, "most of those books are in English; but there are a few volumes by Robert Browning."—Boston Transcript. Mrs. D. —"Just think, Mary, how ter rible. The poor man was torn limb from limb." "Lor' bless us, niarm, and men so scarce I"—New York Mercury. The bell boy tugged at the traveler's trunk; He puffed till he nearly exploded, Then said as his pride very visibly shrunk, "112 didn't know that it was loaded." Wasliington Star. Schoeppenstedt says he knows a woman who is so neat that the greatest trouble of her life is the knowledge that she is made of dust.—Somerville Jour nal. "The political convention is a great institution," said Kickius. "It enables the local politician to rest his mind and gives his larynx a chance."—Washington Star. Lost influence returns no more; The thought his soul must blister; The man who called him "Judge" of yore, Refers to him as "mister." —Washington Star. Sharks won't bite a swimmer who keeps his iegs in motoin. If you can keep kicking longer than a shark can keep waiting you'll be ail right.—New York Mercury. "So," said Mr. Donegan, "they'sbeen printing the funeral uotices av a man that wasn't dead yit. It's a nice fix he'd be in if he had been wan o' these people that believe iverythiug in the newspa pers."—Washington Star. Mr. Grcatwadde—"These lawyers are fearfully exorbitant. I had my will drawn up to-day and he got SSO for it." Mrs. Gieatwadde—"That's nothing. Just think of what he'll get when you die."—Detroit Free Press. Yabslev—"See here, Mudge, when I let you have that five dollars six weeks ago, you said you wanted it for a little while only." Mudge—"Well, I told the truth. I didn't have it in my possession more than half an hour."—lndianapolis Journal. Husband—"l think young Mrs. Prettyface was green with envy when you came in with your new bonaet on." Mrs. llhumor—"Hateful thing. She just did that because she knows that green is becoming to her."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Gaswcll—"Goethe once said, 'We ought to look at some picture every day.' " Dukkats (of miserly proclivi ties) —"Yes, and there are no finer works of art extant than the steel engravings on the back of national bank notes."—Pitts burg Chronicle. The Sword Swallower—"l have had notice that they don't want me any longer in the museum." Fat Woman— "Well, who will take your place?" Sword Swallower—"Why, a girl from Boston is going to swallow her words." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Mr. Gingham," said Taper, "I would like a fortnight's absence to at tend the wedding of a very dear friend." "It must be a very dear friend indeed to make you want that much time. Who is it?" "Why, sir, after the ceiemony she will be my wife."—.Turv. "The man down there at that table," said the waiter, glaring at somebody at the other end of the room, "is no gen tleman. That's all I've got to say." "What's the matter with him?" asked the cashier. "He's breaking them lemonade straw 3so we can't use 'em again, doggone him."—Chicago Tribune. Easy Way to Remove Paiut. It is very seldom now that you see a painter burn off old paiut with a spirit lamp or torch, though there are still a few that stick to the old method. The easiest way to cleau paint off wood, or even metal, is to mix lime aud salsoda pretty thickly in water and then apply treely with a brush. After a short time the paint can be scraped off without difficulty. Any amateur can use this re ceipt, oely a littlo care is advisable, as the mixture will remove skin from the hands or face even more rapidly than it wiil remove paint from wood or metal. —New York Journal.
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