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.